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I just saw A different loyalty on DVD, and was very pleasantly surprised (especially after seeing the trailer). The story was extremely interesting and powerful. Sharon Stone and Rupert Everett were both fine in their parts, though their love story wasn't made completely believable (the second half of the movie was by far better than the beginning, and Sharon Stone actually did a great job portraying this woman). It took me a while to get used to the looks of the movie, though (I'm still not sure why the flashbacks looked so much like an erotic movie from the 70ies). But what an incredible story and a great and subtle script.

The one thing that annoys me in this movie is that, eventhough Jodie Foster's character couldn't use her cell phone inside the safe room, she had plenty of time at some moment to go out the room and call the police from her bedroom while the burglars were fighting downstairs. Maybe she "should" have dropped it when trying to get a signal through that small hole in the panic room... Apart from that, it's pretty entertaining though I wish Jodie Foster would use her talent for more ambitious and risky films ...

This is simply one of my favourite movies. The story is superb, the characters terribly moving, and Marilyn is ... there's no words... Surely her best part ever. She is just admirable in that role. Every time I see it, I can't stop crying like mad when she starts yelling in the desert. In my opinion, one of the most moving moments in movie history (together with that scene Vertigo when Kim Novak comes back from the hair dresser as blond as before. The look of Stewart's face just gets me every time...).