Fascination

Of THE WORST MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN Award. I was dragged to a screening because one of my partners knows the producer Klaus Menzel. Thank God I didn't pay for it, I would have walked out and demanded my money back in the first 30 minutes.

Here's what sucked: 1. BAD CASTING(or bad acting?): NO chemistry at all between Adam Garcia and Alice Evans. There are a few love scenes which even appear as if she is going to crush him, literally. Total turn off.

2. CHEESY: The music was out of a 1980's Knightrider episode, not to mention the opening title of the film was reminiscent of this era/genre as well.

3. BAD STORY: No one cared about Scott's (Adam Garcia's) plight to find out what happened to his dad. Some how he just wasn't convincing anyone. He seemed rather disinterested and so were we.

4. Gratuitous LOVE SCENES: Not sure if this Alice Evans actress is just not attractive at all or what, but I really began to dread seeing her breasts or any part of her for that matter.

5. RANDOM MOANING/BREATHY SOUND EFFECTS: Every time a love scene would ensue there would be some moaning, sexy sound effects, kind of like a soft porn or something. What's worst is these moans and breathy sounds were also heard when a scene would change. What in the world were they thinking? 6. KLAUS MENZEL: Not sure what goes on in this man's head, but he shouldn't be allowed to direct or be in films, unless maybe they are porn. He has a cameo in some club scene where he tries (unsuccesfully) to come on to Alice Evans. He tries to be sexy or something, he is so unappealingly SLIMY. From what I've heard from various people as well as meeting him personally, this is not far from who he really is.

7. FILM GRADE: It looked like cheap grade film, granted the locations were beautiful, but tarnished by this film stock.

8. OVERALL BAD European STYLE AND FEEL: I have 2 words for the overall style and feel of this film, EURO and TRASH.

9. HORRIBLE ENDING: Couldn't it just have ended sooner? Adam Garcia takes her back but not even he seems to know why? They make out again, on the beach, cheesy passion, breathy sounds-- good God can someone please just END THIS?!?? People in the audience even laughed at this, and clapped not because it was good but because it was OVER.

Jacqueline Bisset and Stuart Wilson were the only good thing about this. Too bad they had to be encapsulated in this nonsense of a film.

I give the film a10 for the acting by all principle actors, for its production values, beautiful locations, excellent cinematography and for the unusual storytelling, which made me, discuss the movie with all my friends. I just saw it a second time. It still kept me on my toes, and I discovered many things I overlooked the first time. I highly recommend it to all friends of Hitchcock who was the best in mixing suspense and romance into a potent combination of erotic chills. He also used elements of the film noir even though none are core examples of noir movement. "Fascination" also has those plot twists, surprising performances and a wonderfully ambiguous, sexy femme fatale in Alice Evans. - Also, I predict that Adam Garcia will be a superstar soon. Every girl younger than 25 loves to see him on the big screen...

I really should have checked IMDb before watching this mess. It is a bad movie. Direction and writing is very amateurish. There are shots of the rainbow above the sea. Was that supposed to be symbolic or did the director just put it there because it looked nice? There are several plot holes and the characters are badly written. Adam Garcia takes his shirt off more than he acts. Alice Evans seems to show potential but this half-baked role does nothing to confirm. Stuart Wilson is very bad too. The only one who did act is Jacqueline Bisset. Why is this woman doing terrible movies? 'Fascination' may qualify as soft-core (even though the love-scenes were very unconvincing). It is quite a waste of time and should have been rightfully called 'Unfascination'.

maybe, too many. and the sex appeal of Adam Garcia as the most important ingredient. inspired choice in the first part, strange in the other. because the new revelations about characters, the ambiguity as instrument of suspense are good points but not in the case of lost of sense. because all becomes only improvisation. each actor does the best. this fact is obvious but the fundamental obstacle is the script. because the relativity of emotions, confessions are a kind of hammer against the first story. and the coherence is lost. sure, it is a thriller. but the rules of genre are more subtle. it has the mystery as basic instrument of atmosphere. but something important missing. the love story becomes confuse. the body of Adam Garcia could not supply a thin script. so, isolated scenes about mourning, sadness, revenge and love from a kind a broken puzzle.

I am trying to think of some redeeming qualities for this film but I can think of none. The acting is mediocre, the script senseless, the music unbearable and the scenery mundane for Florida. The plot has obvious holes, needless additions and incomplete tangents. The plot twists are comparable to pushing a grocery cart up and down a supermarket's aisles.

I thought I was renting a thriller and ostensibly, that was the project's ambition. You know the type: X kills Y but makes it look like an accident and then marries Z to get the money, or some such. 'Double Indemnity', 'Body Heat', 'Matchstick Men' are examples from different eras. In the case of 'Fascination', there is a wide gulf (no, an ocean) between ambition and final result. You can also forget the allusions to sexual passion. This is no 'The Postman Always Rings Twice'.

I give this movie a rating of two stars out of humane sympathy, and because you get to see Jacqueline Bisset light up a few cigarettes. We don't see Bisset much in movies any more and cigarettes about as often.