Product Description: Red-hot Heather Graham (Boogie Nights) and Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love) sizzle like never before in this steamy sexual odyssey about the addictive and deadly powers of illicit passion.Too much of a good thing can be deadly. When Alice (Graham) an American living in London meets Adam (Fiennes) a handsome adventurer she's lured out of her safe mundane life to pursue an affair that brings her to the heights of excitement and ecstasy. But when Adam's mysterious and violent past begins to surface Alice investigates and learns that Adam's past and her future may both point to murder!System Requirements:Running Time: 100 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: UNRATED UPC: 027616885135 Manufacturer No: 1004443
Amazon.com: It's easy to identify the biggest attraction of Killing Me Softly: two fetching actors (Heather Graham, Joseph Fiennes) and lots of nudity--especially in the unrated version. It's harder to choose the bigger liability: the dialogue howlers (as Fiennes binds Graham in ropes, she says, "Sometimes I feel like I don't know you") or the incredibly obvious solution to the big mystery. The story is an unofficial update of Hitchcock's Suspicion: a new wife wonders whether her unbelievably charismatic husband might be a murderer. The Chinese filmmaker Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine) turns out to be exactly the wrong director for this overheated slice of l'amour fou in London, but with the hopeless pairing of Graham and Fiennes as the passionate lovers, he didn't have much of a chance. A nicely romantic Patrick Doyle score is the only reason not to hit the Mute button and enjoy the visuals. --Robert Horton
top rating for this extraordinary romance-thriller intense throughout - satisfying two audiences: looking for love/sex story, criminal/thriller fans. stunning performance by both Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes. highly recommended
Killing Me Softly, DVD This movie ranks at the top of one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The plot sounded interesting, but the lead actress was blank. She lacked character...it was embarrassing to watch her. Her lines were stupid...actually comical! The lead actor was quite believable; unfortuately,that was not enough to carry this movie!
Do not waste your money by purchasing this movie!
Internationally accalimed Chinese director bombs in first Hollywood attempt! What's happens, when multi-awarded Chinese director Chen Kai Ge, alters his name to Chen Kaige, sheds his native land and sensibility that made him world renowned for his FAREWELL, MY CONCUBINE, and comes to Hollywood to make an English thriller starring American Heather Graham and English Joseph Fiennes and Natascha MeElhone in an R to unrated sexpoitative mystery entitled KILLING ME SOFTLY????.......a disaster, that's what!!!!!
This is one horrendous, misguided film that has some of the worst dialogue and bad performances from otherwise rather good and reasonably successful actors.That Joseph Fiennes and Natashsa McElhone worked in this is a travesty. That Heather Graham starred in it comes as a given!
Alice (Graham) is an American living in London already into a safe six-month comfortable relationship with a pretty nice guy.On her way to work,while pressing the crosswalk light, she touches hands with Adam (Fiennes) and all sense leaves the head and all blood rushes to the crotch....AND THAT IS WHERE THIS FILM STAYS!That McElhone ,as Adam's sister is a smarmy and seductive throw -in to this mess only serves to make things more laughable.That rough,kinky sex is thrown in just makes this all the more ridiculous, especially when Grahm is tied down,ready to ravaged by Fiennes, and she numbly states,"Adam,I have to pee".(Are you getting the gist of this?)
Why 2 stars? Patrick Doyle composed a wonderful soundtrack,just as he always does!Take the soundtrack away and ONE STAR or lower!
There are two conclusions that I leave with: 1.Chen Kaige,returned to his homeland and took back his given name and made Chinese films. 2.Joseph Fiennes and Natasha McElhone both went on to play better roles more becoming of their true abilities They needed a paycheck like anyone else!
Oh....there's one more thing: Heather Graham is awful at no matter what she does.Bearing her all in this film didn't work, so what's next for her? hmmmm?
Killing me softly I saw this movie again when i bought it, the movie is not just a love story, it is a story how we as women like excitement in our lives. I enjoyed the actors and the story line and the twist of the sister's character. Sometimes there is more to a person then what you see. This movie has it, you can't stop looking at it because you might miss something. I would recommend this movie to anyone that likes drama, hot loves scenes and suspense.
A review for hetero female viewers This review is for other heterosexual females who find Joseph Fiennes wonderfully sexy. The story is silly, Heather Graham's acting and doe-eyed facial expressions are hysterical, unintentionally, and that orange sweater they made Joseph wear was tragic, but I will watch it twice just to see his scenes again. He's intense, passionate, sexy and showing a lot of skin. And in spite of a lame script and co-star, the man can act. I dont know what possessed him to sign on to this movie, but he gives it his best. Love his intensity. Go for the unrated version as I understand it has more nudity.
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