Fatale

I nearly didn't watch this when I read the reviews and saw the cheesy 80' style cover image (nothing wrong with 80's I grew up in 80's) but I thought I would give it a go as I had a few hours to spare

I am pleased I did it was a good thriller which kept me interested all the way to the end and also kept me guessing in places to. Yeah there are better thrillers out there but this one is certainly worth the watch even just for the house featured and the views from it

Good thriller - worth a watch

Hard to believe that good actor's can be this bad but this does achieve it in leaps and bounds. You'll see better acting in a music video and that's why it is as bad as it is, it's a glorified music video with dialogue. Not one character has any depth and are all basically stupid, arrogant or both and above all, laughable. The vfx are computer game level (like Doom from the 90's), as for the score they clearly thought it was a horror film.

Successful sports agent Derrick Tyler (Michael Ealy) is getting married. He's brought to Vegas for a last day of bachelor freedom. He's disinterested until he meets Val (Hilary Swank). He lies and they have a fling. He leaves her to go back to his life in L. A. Someone breaks into his home and almost kills him. The police arrives and detective Val Quinlan turns out to be his Val from Vegas.

A cheating guy is hard to root for. The movie is trying to get the audience to empathize but I have no sympathy. Then the movie gets complicated. Val has personal drama. There are complications everywhere. The premise starts losing the thread. They are trying to do a Strangers on a Train plot but they are nowhere clever enough. Val's final move is unnecessary and ultimately makes no sense. This is a plot getting away from the writer's grasp. It has the lurid undertones but it becomes more gloss than grit. There could be something here if it could clean up some of the junk.

Slow start turns into an absorbing thriller with a different end. Worth a view.

Is it a great story? No. Is the acting awesome? Not really. Then why 6 stars? Because I found the entire thing pretty entertaining. While parts of the story were pretty easy to figure out early on, there were some twists which I found interesting enough to make this a better movie than others thought it was.