SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

karchad I find this film pointless. Big deal, there was an interracial relationship. This theme can hardly highlight a movie. And Robert Downey Jr. is totally wasted, having the oxygen mask on him for most of his role. Then again, they should have put oxygen masks on the rest of the cast, to stifle their lines. Come to think about, the audience in the theaters probably needed oxygen masks to keep from fainting at this poor flock.I even found the sex scenes uninteresting.What exactly was the theme or idea, or plot of this movie. No need to issue a spoiler here, because anyone watching this movie should be thoroughly dis-interested in the ending.

to_sleep_perchance_to_dream2003 I am not that big a fan of wesley snipes but he seems to pull this role of okay. I don't really like the film that much either but when it comes on TV i never miss it because of Robert Downey Jr. His role as a man dying of AIDS touched me deeply. It deserved a best supporting actor nomination from the academy. He is the only real comic relief too. with a lift of his eyebrow he can make you chuckle and can express all those feelings without words. Horrible film, But Downey is great. I can't forget to mention at the beginning when Snipes is visiting Downey at that studio, the cinematography is amazing, that dance idea is pure brilliance with the ballerina and then cutting back to Downey in a god like stance.

Carl S Lau Life can be a series of happenstance which is what Mike Figgis has strung together into the plot of this movie. The cast is more than adequate and does quite well with Robert Downey jr., giving the best performance in the movie. The skill of a director and making a movie is to create an environment in which the viewer suspends disbelief and doesn't go back later and pick the movie apart. Figgis has failed, not because of chance encounters, but because the movie is too symmetrical for its own good. It is unbelievable because Figgis did not spend the time on screen developing the characters sufficiently to motivate what happens in the ending. The premise of a one night stand affecting one's life is more than plausible. When it all comes out in the wash, I simply don't see the chemistry between Nastassja Kinski and Wesley Snipes and without that the movie makes no sense and ultimately falls apart.

patita-1 The title of this movie(One Night Stand) may suggest that it's about "Cheating" but is something else,is about an instant attraction,the things occur spontaneously between Karen(Ms Kinski )and Max(Wesley Snipes)THEN just a memory of that perfect woman,then the re- encounter,the desire and passion appears again and then…surprise!LOVE!Max and Karen are drawn together with both of them finding something in each other that had been lacking in their own relationships BUT is Robert Downey jr who steals the show HE IS THE GLUE that represents human connection in the film,believe me HE ROCKS!!!.Wonderful performances by the cool Wesley Snipes,Ming Na Wen,Nastassja Kinski(she is so smooth!!!),OK I got to say something about this actress,Kinski,she's a true woman.She doesn't has the vulgarity of Jennifer Lopez(Oops!).I also liked the two sex scenes of our protagonist with this two woman(the difference of how they make love…),even the film has some cameos from Ione Skye(remember that actress of Say Anything?);His real life brother ,the musician Donovan Leitch,OK Mike Figgis is the Director but he also is responsible of the wonderful music in this film.I hate to say it,but Roger Ebert was right in saying that Kinski has the best line of the movie: "What do you do, Karen?" asks Mimi(Max's wife). And she replies: "I'm a rocket scientist."