Style: Thriller
Director: Brian DePalma
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace
Operating Time: 97 minutes
Synopsis: Promoting government Christine (Rachel McAdams) claims credit score for a advertising and marketing marketing campaign developed by her protégé Isabelle (Noomi Rapace). Each ladies are sleeping with the corrupt Dirk, whereas Isabelle’s assistant Dani has her personal agenda. With profession ambitions at stake, the feud between Christine and Isabelle escalates to public humiliations, blackmail threats, substance abuse, and in the end, homicide.
What Works Nicely: The homicide sequence is successfully staged side-by-side with a ballet efficiency.
What Does Not Work As Nicely: Director and author Brian De Palma makes an attempt to roll again the years to the 1980’s period of erotic thrillers, however this flaccid effort is nearly laughably inept. Sadly each Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace are miscast and poorly served by an inane script focusing on smoldering intrigue however solely discovering logic gaps and superficial glitz barely concealing funds limitations. In some way the concept of a lesbian romance is right here nonetheless handled as harmful, however much more archaic are the repeated rounds of was-it-all-a-dream wake-up moments, and the long-lost twin trope.
Key Quote:
Christine (to Isabelle): You are shocked as a result of I took credit score to your thought. Truthfully, I might count on you to do the very same factor in my place.
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