CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Mister8tch This movie has all the trappings to be a sexy thriller in the vein of Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction, Body of Evidence, but it misses on three counts....1. Lara Flynn Boyle (who I adored in The Practice) does not have the chops to play a character that Sharon Stone, Glenn Close and Madonna cornered in their respective turns. 2. Faye Dunaway is so over the top that we actually applaud her final outcome. 3. The ending is just terrible. You are waiting for something more fun and climactic, but since Hutton's character was such a goody-goody, not much else is realistically possible. This film grips you at points, but when it's over, you just wonder why you wasted your time.

LarryBrownHouston **** REVIEW INCLUDES "GREAT DIALOG" SPOILERS **** Wow was I surprised to see all the positive reviews of this movie here. I thought I was alone in being entertained by this. External reviews often completely trash this movie without finding anything positive. Well get this chemical makeup: Stunning and popular star Lara Flynn Boyle overtly titillating us and wearing skimpy outfits even including a bikini(!), Timothy Hutton, habitual scene stealer Oliver Platt during younger and thinner days, superstar Faye Dunaway, and Steven Webber from the TV show "Wings." How's that for voltage? Add in a proved plot line with a long pedigree (Hand that rocks the cradle, Single White Female, many more), some great whacky dialog, and top it off with the inspired idea of a corporate thriller set in a cookie company with the climax in an industrial kitchen, and yeah...I'll bank that. How could you possibly lose? Actually I really like this movie, even just watching it straight. The only problem I have is Faye Dunaway's really bad, hammy, mugging acting, and toward the end Boyle picks up some of the same style, but other than that I like it. However, if you make me analyze it, OK, it's riddled with plot holes, dropped threads, unanswered questions, implausibilities, etc, but that really doesn't matter if the movie succeeds in entertaining me. And it does. So with that in mind, you could look at it as one of the "so bad it's good" genre, and it does succeed on that level. I agree with others that the ending seems as tho it was written on the spot when someone lost the rest of the script. It actually has a lot of good stuff in it. For example: One of my favorite literary devices is the "buddy thing," which is an entertainment staple: Laurel and Hardy, Skipper and Gilligan, Kip and friend in Bosom Buddies, Balky and Larry in "Perfect Strangers," etc. This movie features that, but in four directions: Hutton and his boss, Hutton and his buddy (Webber), Hutton and his rival (Platt), Hutton and Boyle. Lots of fun there. The highlight for me is some of the whacky dialog, which I'm still quoting years later. For example: "You're BLOWIN' it man." "YOU'VE GOT THIS PROBLEM." And one of the greatest lines ever: "Good gosh how hard can it be? I'm not asking you to splice DNA you just DO IT!" Wonderful stuff. Finally, it's no surprise that Hutton and Platt both turn in performances that are well worth watching. I would have liked to give this movie a 10, because it's really one of my favorites, but I couldn't do that in good conscience, so I had to go easy on the superlative.

vinnie_hans I found this video in an ex-rental shop, i had never heard of it and bought it for 50 eurocents. When i came home and searched on how people voted for this film. The average vote was not encouraging so i left it on the shelf for months. When i decided to watch it, it was surprisingly good. Not a classic and sometimes very predictable, but never dull. Good performances by the leading characters, especially Laura Flynn Boyle and Faye Dunaway. I rate this film 8 out 0f 10.

brandonsites1981 Delightfully nasty film about a temporary office assistant (Lara Flynn Boyle) who makes life for her new boss (Timothy Hutton) a living hell through her perfect organizational skills, a cold icey manner, and the fact that she is raising up the cooperate latter faster then him. Oh, also all of his friends are turning up dead and he suspects her of all the killings. Lara Flynn Boyle's trim body and slick cool look make her a perfect choice for her role. She perfectly captures upper class stuffiness while hiding her true emotions behind her icey interior. However, as the film moves on it just gets sillier and sillier.Rated R; Violence and Profanity.