Femme Fatale (2002)
Hey, Brian de Palma doesn't suck after all. This here's got a whiz-bang opening, a lot of enjoyably hyperactive cinematography, a good sense of its own ludicrousness, one of the best Dead of Night-inspired twist endings on record and a twenty-minute segment near the end of the film (starting with Rebecca Romjin-Stamos launching into a striptease and ending with her full frontal nude scene underwater) that ranks as one of the most exciting and entertaining stretches of film de Palma's ever conceived. Only major demerit is the awkward and sluggish midsection, wherein it looks like the film will go all Snake Eyes on us, but even that has its moments. Romjin-Stamos appears to be having a whoopin' good time.
Grade: B+
Hey, Brian de Palma doesn't suck after all. This here's got a whiz-bang opening, a lot of enjoyably hyperactive cinematography, a good sense of its own ludicrousness, one of the best Dead of Night-inspired twist endings on record and a twenty-minute segment near the end of the film (starting with Rebecca Romjin-Stamos launching into a striptease and ending with her full frontal nude scene underwater) that ranks as one of the most exciting and entertaining stretches of film de Palma's ever conceived. Only major demerit is the awkward and sluggish midsection, wherein it looks like the film will go all Snake Eyes on us, but even that has its moments. Romjin-Stamos appears to be having a whoopin' good time.
Grade: B+
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