MOVIE - FEMME FATALE - $$$ (OUT OF 10)
STARRING - ANTONIO BANDERAS, REBECCA ROMIJN-STAMOS, PETER COYOTE, GREGG HENRY, REI RASMUSSEN & ERIC EBOUANEY.
A very bad girl escapes her past only to have it catch up to her when she is photographed by a down and out photographer played by Banderas.
Femme Fatale is supposed to be a tribute to the film noir movies of the 40's and 50's. As such, it is an exercise in style over substance that proves the point, that man can't survive on bread alone. This is one tribute we could could have done without.
Oh yeah, without giving it away, there are clues in the movie that something else is going on. By the time we get to the payoff, its impact is greatly lessened by the fact that the audience no longer really cares (I, personally, was tempted to walk out about halfway through). The payoff, a superficial morsel of moralizing, also comes out of left-field. A film-noir, with a happy hollywood ending, isn't that an oxymoron?
Femme Fatale is fatally flawed.
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