Banderas "Assassins," "Desperado" is a passionate Latino type in the film, set in New York City, but he doesn't push it beyond the believable. His fiery manner keeps pumping up the good doctor's desire -- the two feed off each other and keep the movie on the hot track.
Sex scenes show her as a woman who knows what she wants. She even bites Tony's buns. Dangers abound -- he's a crackerjack marksman. The love affair takes on ominous shadings -- and glaring implausibilities -- as the psychologist begins to be victimized by frightening occurrences.
She's sent a bouquet of dead flowers. Her cat is sliced up and delivered in a box. A chilling letter arrives in the office mail. Fearful and confused but not enough to give up her sizzling affair , she suspects maybe it wasn't such a good plan ever to talk to Tony.
She didn't know he was dead. However, although her other personality usually hates men, it falls in love with Tony, as well as Sarah herself.
This is obvious in the scene where Sarah appears in Tony's home, slaps him, and has sex with him. Her regular personality wasn't ready for that kind of commitment yet; also, her other personality's way of having sex is very aggressive.
Everything weird, bizarre, or directly threatening that happens towards Sarah, is caused by her other personality, because it's jealous. It wants Tony for itself. It starts out threatening her the paper, the flowers , and ends with trying to kill her with the heater in the bathtub. Sarah, who doesn't know that it's her other personality, and isn't good at trusting men, especially men who are close to her, blames Tony, because she doesn't feel safe when he's around.
However, at the end, she is told the truth by Tony: He is investigating her, in order to find out what happened to Benny. In the beginning, Sarah doesn't believe that she's "been stalking herself". However, when her father enters, he triggers some memories, that awakes her other personality.
She reacts aggressively to both, because she feels, as usual, that men are the root of all evil. She starts by killing Tony, because she was, in fact, in love with him, and it seems to her, at least like he isn't in love with her. After killing him, her father, not knowing she is not "herself" at the moment, tries to calm her down; this triggers more unwanted memories; she feels like she's back at the top of those stairs, her father making her cover his crime.
She reacts very aggressively, as that memory is one part of the origin of her hate against men the other being sexual abuse by her father. After killing him, she destroys the tape, which is the only devastating proof toward her suffering from multi-personality disorder. At that point she's still not "herself", but her other personality. She then covers her own crime, as she feels that it was her father's fault, just like back when she was little.
After covering up her crime, she sits down by the body of Tony, and her other personality subsides. We hear that the police aren't going to file charges, since it seems like an obvious case of self-defense.
She then gives us a definition on a multi-personality disorder which fits perfectly on herself and goes out with Cliff. She doesn't know that she is guilty of killing two people close to her, and the movie ends with the disturbing conclusion, that unless something hinders her from killing more, her other personality can keep killing men, while her regular personality can have a clean consciousness, as she doesn't know the truth.
Review: While watching this movie, I thought that it was just the regular thriller. I was very surprised at the ending, which tries to turn it into more I'm not quite sure it succeeds, but it made everything that preceded it easier to forgive.
The movie has a very Hitchcock feel to it; suspense, shocks, atmosphere It felt like it could have been the work of the late Hitchcock himself save for the sex scene, which I'm not quite sure was so much necessary as an easy device to attract those on the look-out for such a thing.
I recommend this to fans of thrillers just don't expect a masterpiece Yes, I actually just made that pun. This erotic thriller has some of the right ingredients: primarily the rich, Bernard Herrmann-like music score by Pino Donaggio, and the good cast. Rebecca De Mornay is ideal for portraying repressed fire, Antonio Banderas can easily switch from likable to potentially dangerous, Dennis Miller and Harry Dean Stanton provide lively support Miller gets the best line in the film: "I am Sisyphus with a hard-on!
The De Mornay - Banderas erotic scenes are quite steamy. A moderate success. Unsurprising, boring "thriller" Wizard-8 3 January Not surprised this was a bad movie - after all, it's Canadian.
But did it have to be so uneventful? You could walk away from almost any part of this movie for 15 minutes or so, and not miss a thing! And because of a goof by the director, I figured out who the killer was a long time before anyone else did. There is a constant tension between her and Antonio Banderas, sexual and mysterious, and it's a delight to watch. I thought both actors gave us a perfect performance in this movie.
I read that some people thought the ending was so obvious. Well I can categorically tell you they are lying. Not in a million years you see the end coming. I would never have guessed and unless you saw the movie before or you read spoilers you will never guess either.
And that's what makes Never Talk To Strangers special. If you like that kind of movies, with twists and turns, then this one is definitely worth a watch. Enjoyed the plot to this story and some very torrid scenes and horrible blood and gore all put into one package.
Rebecca De Mornay, Dr. Sarah Taylor ,"Wedding Crashers",'05, played a shrink who was dealing with a mental case in a prison and also had a husband who was a doctor in the same hospital. One night on the way home from the hospital, she meets up with a young woman in the middle of the road in a very dark woods near a bridge. It is at this point in the picture that things really go crazy. As the story progresses, Sarah meets up with Antonio Banderas, Tony Ramirez ,"The Legend of Zorro",'05, who manages to hit on Sarah and gets a date and plenty more interesting torrid events.
There are many twists and turns to this mystery tale and the ending of this film may greatly deceive you. Max seems to be far more knowledgeable in the science of multiple personalities then even Sarah is even though she's supposed to be the expert in these matters.
It's much later in the film that we begin to realize how right Max was in that he's suffers from a multiple personality complex himself! Sarah later gets involved with ex-cop Tony Ramirez, Antonio Banderas,whom she met in the wine department of her local supermarket.
Tony a guy who can't take no for an answer sweep the icy blond off her feet and within hours the two have a sizzling as well as kinky affair at Tony's loft apartment. The affair between Sarah and Tony gets under the skin of Sarah's boyfriend Cliff Raddison, Dennis Miller, who in how he handles himself may be in need of psychiatric treatment, like Sarah's patients, himself.
The movie gets even more confusing when Sarah's father Henry Taylor, Len Cariou, unexpectedly shows up wanting to crash her place, because he doesn't have money for a hotel room, for the Christmas Holiday's. Henry has been estranged from his daughter since her mother died in a car smash-up when she was a little girl. It soon becomes evident that the circumstances of Sarah's mothers death are not exactly as her father told her in fact she was at the scene and made, through brainwashing, to forget the whole thing!
As we soon learn it was Sarah's mothers death that was the reason that got her interested in becoming a psychologist in the first place! It's when Sarah starts to get strange packages sent to her, one with the dismembered body of her pet cat Sam, that she starts to suspect that Tony, whom she's now having a stormy relationship with,is behind them.
Sarah also finds out by breaking into, at his loft, Tony's personal belongings that he's been keeping a secret file on her, with newspaper clippings and police reports, that go back to he time when her mothers died some 20 years ago!
It's when ex-boyfriend Cliff gets the hell beat out of him by a masked assailant that Sarah finally suspects, if she didn't already, that Tony is responsible for all the terror that she now finds herself engulfed in.
Nothing special in this Alfred Hitchcock-like thriller with the exception of the typical icy blond, Sarah Taylor, really heating up the screen in her almost X-rated acrobatics with Tony Rameiriz. Something that even the "Master", Alfred Hitchcock, would more then hesitate in putting into his films! MBunge 20 June This film is surprisingly not horrible. Sarah Taylor Rebecca De Mornay is a psychologist who starts receiving threatening letters and packages, like someone is stalking her.
I s it Cliff Raddison Dennis Miller , her upstairs neighbor who had a one-night stand with Sarah long ago and seems desperate for another encounter?
Is it Max Chelski Harry Dean Stanton , the serial killer she's analyzing in prison for his upcoming trial? Could it be her father Henry Len Cariou , who's just re-entered her life and with whom Sarah has an obviously disturbing relationship?
The story keeps you wondering until revealing the truth, which turns out to be pretty decent for a twist ending. Clocking in at under 90 minutes, Never Talk to Strangers is like a well made wading pool. There's no depth to it but it works as it's intended to. There's some sex, some mystery, a little humor from Dennis Miller and just a touch of violence.
There's not a lot of chemistry between De Mornay and Antonio Banderas. However, they're both very pretty and the movie moves quickly enough that it never asks you to take their relationship too seriously. De Mornay, Banderas and the rest of the cast do reasonably good acting jobs and the film is adequately written and directed. Despite the ambition of the twist ending, there's not a lot here that will stick with you.
For less than 90 minutes, though, it's a pleasant diversion. The only thing that separates Never Talk To Strangers from the typical woman-in-peril movie you'd see on the Lifetime channel are a few F-words, Banderas' bare butt and De Mornay's naked breasts. The only truly interesting things about this film are the fact that De Mornay was one of the producers, demonstrating again the principle of Producer Self-Nudity, and that it's a product of the aforementioned De Mornay boomlet. It's one of the more intriguing Hollywood phenomena, where an actress who may have had some success as a starlet but never became a star, suddenly experiences a career resurgence in her 30s.
These women usually get one attention-grabbing role and it's like the movie industry notices them again and decides to see if they can squeeze any more juice out of them. Sometimes these boomlets reinvigorate a career, like they did with Sharon Stone.
Sometimes it just peters out, like it did with De Mornay. But whatever the reason for them, the 30something boomlet is probably the one thing that keeps a lot of actresses plugging away in movies long after they should have found other employment. I'm pretty sure the beautiful and talented Winona Ryder is wondering when her boomlet is going to come along.
Clever Whodunnit GManfred 19 August I like this sort of picture, the kind of mystery in which you can't pick out the murderer until the end of the movie. It's not billed as a mystery, though, but that's what it is.
Although primarily a mystery, it spends a lot of time as a romance between the two principals, and then switches gears before the onset of tedium. As a result, there is a considerable dead spot in the middle of the film, which may have influenced some reviewers ratings. As I mentioned, the ending is quite clever and the picture keeps you guessing, since there are few suspects to choose from and the ending was unexpected.
Rebecca De Mornay was good as the heroine and Antonio Banderas was even better as the romantic stranger. Len Cariou plays her father in a wasted role. Banderas is often better than the material and does not seem to take himself seriously, as witnessed by the number of crummy movies he has appeared in. If you rent it, give it a chance.
I'll bet you won't guess the secret to the ending. PredragReviews 10 May I really liked the plot and directing and acting in this movie. I thought this was one of Ms. The movie even did a close up of his ring to emphasise this. Answer: Tony is secretly investigating Sarah while engaging in an affair with her. Pretending to be married would be a convenient cover that allows him to be vague about where he lives, arranging to see her at odd times and in out-of-the way places. Separate from membership , this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases.
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