Fatal Attraction (1987)

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

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

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

FATAL ATTRACTION is a psychological thriller about the perfect family gone wrong, about one simple affair capable of destroying lives. Glenn Close does well as the psychopathic love affair. She and the entire cast deliver solid performances. The story keeps you going and the ending is truly suspenseful.However, FATAL ATTRACTION is a long haul away from being a masterpiece. The cinematography is quite generic. Dialogues are shot in long shot / re-shot sequences. Everything is set in rather dull environments: office rooms and bleak city apartments. However, it is the movie's pacing that is its biggest downfall. While FATAL ATTRACTION does pick up speed towards the end, the first half felt like a drag. I'm a fan of slow movies, but here the pace just wasn't justified. For such a pace, you need more than just generic archetypes such as "the perfect wife" and "the loving husband". The characters don't go much beyond what we've (since then) seen in many many movies.How has FATAL ATTRACTION aged? Yes, there's violence and sex that at the time must have been shocking... but audiences today are accustomed to more extreme stuff and may be bored by this late 80's flick. I'm not saying they should've turned this into a gory slasher movie ... but the movie ain't all that deep to really justify the "psycho" in "psychothriller".The other thing that hasn't aged so well is the 80's synth tunes... which just feel cheesy to modern audiences! ;-)

This is a psychological thriller that's set in New York. A middle-class married man has casual sex with a woman who has borderline personality disorder. When he ends the fling, she reacts by stalking him. I can't praise this film enough - nor can I find any faults in it. The writing, acting, directing etc. are excellent. This is what a thriller should be like - why isn't it regarded as one of the all-time greats? I can't understand why it missed out on Academy Awards, nor why critics insist that slow, boring films like Vertigo are better.

"Fatal Attraction" is one of those famous things that got people talking during every free moment – and also one that's sure to be spoiled if you're like me and wait 30 years to see it. Plot-wise, I know that to expect; but it still surprised me in some ways. Like the character of Alex Forrest. She doesn't have very much depth and it reduced to a stock schizo, but you wouldn't know it from Glenn Close's performance. Alex's (let's call them) antics have an unpredictability to them. Even when they're outlandish, they still work towards terrorizing Michael Douglas. She just keeps closing in, man. I don't think I'm really spoiling anything by saying Douglas eventually comes clean to his wife (Anne Archer) about the affair and that look of abject devastation on her face is horrible. If the writing ever fails you (and it gets iffy) the acting won't. This can be a real nail- biter at times, and that's because the performances elevate the trashy script. 7/10

Let me start by saying that this was a very decent movie. Michael Douglas at his best doing the roles he does best. And not only him but the rest of the crew as well.To me, the best part of this movie is actually the very believable plot. This is a situation that could happen to anyone, and to a different extent has happened to people I know. Furthermore, both the script and all the actors make the movie all the more believable. It is true that the movie deflates itself towards the end, but overall it is a great movie, and even a warning movie for the ones attempting to do what is done there.The movie gets 8 points on my list because of the less-believable ending, and also because Glenn Close, while doing a perfect part in the acting, should take the part of the wife, and the wife (Anne Archer) should take the part of Glenn Close. This said, even as it is the movie should not be unbelievable. I have seen worse, and you will know what I mean when you actually watch the movie yourself.One thing that cracked me up were the negative comments on this website. It seems that they were mostly written by women with chip in their shoulders. They do not criticize the movie, but the "fatal attraction". They criticize the fact that men would do this or that, or that a man would prefer X over Y...basically making quite clear that something touched them at a personal level and they did not like it. I guess truth hurts.If you haven't watch this movie, do it. It is well written, incredibly well acted, and as much as you will have to forgive the last 5 minutes, it is overall a great movie.