gladblade
Unfaithful is a movie driven by mystery and rogue of a housewife and a mother Coonie Sumner that encounters a young man who tends to become her secret lover, the movie's title brings the plot's ideology like a charm of what to be expected.The plot's ideology reveals what a small mistake might snowball into but despite of what is moral; the implicit ideology carries its own set of value of a lonely house wife's that wishes to know how it feels to be romantically loved and pleasured. Coonie's husband is a workaholic that tries so hard to give her attention (when he has the time) but his attempts are poor and uncharming, so Coonie turns to the Unfaithful side and gets what she was craving for but at a very high price. reviewed by KGB 2
hoxjennifer
From the tag-line, I expected this movie to be about a secret, lusty affair and a jealous, raging husband who takes things too far. The secret, lusty affair part is right, but, it wasn't exactly what I was expecting in terms of storyline. Which isn't' to say the story itself is bad, it's not, but the execution of it was hard to take seriously at times.First off, usually with these adultery movies, we at least understand why the adulterer wants to cheat. I found that the exposition into Connie's life was not adequate enough for me to feel sorry for, or at the least understand her. She lives in a quiet suburb, she has been "happily" married for 11 years, she has an 8 year old son, who is cute, but somewhat annoying, as boys that age can be, her house is in a state of disarray because of this, and she seems to spend her days... doing... not much. She goes into town one day (wearing heels and a tight fitting dress... to shop for "auction items?") and randomly falls into a *gasp* sexy French man. She scrapes her knee in the tumble and the sexy French man invites her in to clean up. Cue sexual tension. Turns out, the French man makes his living as a bookseller and offers to give her a book of poetry about getting "drunk off Life", and inside the book he has snuck his phone # in it, for her to discover while she opens the book one day at home. Of course, being the foolish woman she is, she decides to call him, and things escalate from there...Now I won't reveal any more details, but at times it is just hard to take Diane Lane's character seriously. I won't disagree that her acting is amazing, but just the way the character is written and her actions is just extremely frustrating. At times, she is a guilty housewife, a lustful adulterer, and a terrible liar. The only character who I truly feel for and believe is fully developed and genuine is the husband, who displays an honest and believable reaction to finding out about the affair (let's face it, obviously he will find out, who are we kidding)...But, honestly, this movie had the potential for a higher rating from me... it just needed better execution overall.
Python Hyena
Unfaithful (2002): Dir: Adrian Lyne / Cast: Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Oliver Martinez, Erik Per Sullivan, Michelle Monaghan: Painful yet well crafted film regarding unfaithfulness. Richard Gere and Diane Lane play a married couple whose marriage is threatened when she has an affair with a bookseller played by Oliver Martinez. Predictable and dark especially when murder factors. Even a visit from the police seems recycled and obvious. Adrian Lyne's films often address sexual consequence but the sex scenes seem more as a peep show. Better examples of his work are Indecent Proposal and 9 ½ Weeks but this is not one of his better films thanks to its emphasis on being a peep show. In the first the sexual tension is high but not shown. In the second it is displayed in multiple variety to back its subject matter. Here it just seems like an excuse to place two actors in hot sexual action. Gere and Lane deliver on frustration and guilt despite being props for a dim cliffhanger. Martinez is charming and seductive and ultimately too abrupt. Other roles play for convenience over purpose. As with most Lyne films, this one is well made in terms of locations and lighting but its message might have worked more effectively had the affair been less of a peep show and more about motives and consequence. As a result it is more about steamy sex than the consequences of infidelity. Score: 5 ½ / 10
Jane Dough
Best describe it is a low budget porno only good thing about the movie She meets a guy she screws him in a whole bunch of different places Between that she goes home and talks to the husband No real plot to the movie closest thing to a plot is after the cute guy dies Coming up with a story to out run the police after hubby dumps the body That's as close as your going to get to a plot the rest is a lot of Moaning and groaning and more moaning and groaning Just skip it your not missing much in fact your not Missing anything at all. This was a real stinker This Movie Really Stinks Yup unless your looking for cheap porno skip it
