Temptation - Ultimo inganno

(1994) Temptation THRILLER/ DRAMA

Co-executive produced and directed by Strathford Hamilton that has, Eddie Lanarsky (Jeff Fahey) gets double crossed by his friend, Michael Reddick (Philip Casnoff), something to do with insurance fraud. And once Eddie gets out after spending five years, he seeks retribution by getting employed as a captain of a yact owned by Lee Reddick (Alison Doody) who happens to be Michael's wife. This is yet, another one of those straight-to-rental films, where it has basically one bad guy outsmarting everybody else or him being one step ahead of everyone else. Complete BS, if you ask me.

It's not AS BAD as you'd be lead to believe! I admit, the only reason I bought it, is because Jeff Fahey is DAMN FINE, and none of the video stores around here had it to rent... From the beginning, it seems like it's going to be pretty boring, then, it goes on, and gets half interesting. It's not really a great movie, but it's sort of fun, if you're bored! I never said "arghhhh this SUCKS". Some things were strange.. like the Australian guy and the girls relationship.. Towards the end, it gets a little boring again.. all in all though, I'm not sorry I spent $3.00 on it.

When Eddie Lanarski (Jeff Fahey) becomes hopelessly in arrears to the I.R.S., he and co-conspirator Michael Reddick (Philip Casnoff) arrange to destroy their ship by explosion to collect insurance monies on its appraisal value; however, Reddick double crosses Eddie and the latter, following his sentence of five years served in prison, is seeking vengeance. An opportunity to achieve his sombre goal occurs when fate places him in position as the captain of a yacht owned by Reddick's wife Lee (Allison Doody), and when his former partner in crime, whom Lanarsky had not incriminated during his trial for arson, becomes aware of Eddie's presence, it is after the vessel has embarked, leading to a troubled voyage for all. The film is fairly engrossing during its opening moments, but an ever increasing number of mind numbing flaws of logic and continuity sinks the piece as it tumbles into a sea of stupidity, exemplified during a scene when, after Eddie and Lee have swum from mid-ocean to an unoccupied beach upon which they flounder, Lee asks "Why don't we start a fire?". Additionally, this same pair, after being clubbed and bloodied nearly to death, promptly spring back into vigorous action, their wounds healed. The movie becomes one garish act of violence following upon another, although time is taken for erotic coupling amid all of this physical jeopardy. There is precious little of worth within this low budget piece shot in the Miami region, except for an excellent score contributed by Conrad Pope, the quality of which is too finished for such a blear-witted scenario.

This movie does have a couple of interesting names attached to it, but nothing can help an awful script like this. Besides, the "erotic" scenes in the movie are so lame that it looks like the actor (Fahey) and actresses (Doody & Durham) would rather be home shaving their pet rat. Find another movie, or just sit around moping on your floor!

BLOODY AWFUL...except for David Keith's Australian accent, which was surprisingly good. Do all Americans think Aussies look like this? We do NOT have forests of ginger chest hair. We do NOT wear crocodile tooth necklaces. We do NOT use words like "strewth" and "cobber" anymore. We do NOT carry Bowie knives around, much less shave with them. Well done to my hero David Keith for giving Strine a go, but as for the rest of them - the only temptation I had was to switch off. Not even straight-to-video quality. One out of ten.