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It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Blistering performances.

Blistering performances.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Not among the top list. But, the movie is really a worth watch. There are so many films about deadly and dangerous women. This one is one among them.Bridget Gregory has an amazing talent to write backwards. She makes her husband to do drug deal, steals the money and run away. She finds a job in another town under a fake name. She meets a young man, who gives her regular company.A well made movie. Definitely worth watch. If you are a fan of Gone Girl, this movie is also a must watch.#KiduMovie

This has a smalltown sense of place, upstate New York with these quaint large houses surrounded by lawns, it has a devious femme fatale who wraps the square country boy around her finger and makes him dance, laying sexual traps all over the place. Linda Fiorentino is a pleasure to watch; cocky twist of the head, feline mischief while splayed on a bed, pure sashaying allure.On the other hand it's a bit quaint itself, something drummed up on a screenwriter's desk to twist and turn a certain way but, as we see it unfold, convenient in more than a few spots, and never really dreamed up as visual smoke from her sultry cigarette.It's simple so far as noirs go; a woman who cynically manipulates a story all along the way and the hapless stooge whose desire for her makes it come to life. When her story is foiled by a last minute revelation, she improvises a new one on the spot, using sex as the lure, ever the cunning storyteller.Noir Meter: 3/4 | Neo-noir or post noir? Neo

Clay and Bridget Gregory are an affluent New York yuppie couple who supplement their income by a bit of drug dealing on the side. Their marriage, however, is not a happy one and after they make $700,000 on one deal Bridget steals the cash from her husband and flees to a small town near Buffalo. There she changes her name to Wendy Kroy and gets a job at the local insurance company. (Her new name is derived from "Wen Kroy"- "New York" spelt backwards). She begins a relationship with Mike, a young man who works for the same company, and evolves a complicated scheme to use Mike to get rid of Clay, who is desperately trying to track her down to recover the stolen money.I originally saw "The Last Seduction" when it first came out in 1994 and left it convinced that its leading lady Linda Fiorentino, so amply gifted with both beauty and talent, was going to become a major star. When I watched it again recently my main feeling was one of surprise that we have seen so little of her since. She did not even appear in the sequel "The Last Seduction II", in which the character of Bridget was played by Joan Severance. Here, however, her performance is absolutely electrifying. Bridget is quite shamelessly manipulative and deceitful, and so amoral that she verges on the psychopathic, but Fiorentino invests her with so much glamour and sex appeal that we can understand how a man like Mike might fall for her, even though he should be under no illusions as to her true nature. The other great performance comes from Bill Pullman, a man as devious as his wife and very nearly as clever.I initially wondered if the reason for Fiorentino's subsequent neglect by casting directors could have been that she got her big break too late- she was 36 when she appeared in this film- and therefore had insufficient time to establish herself as a major star before hitting 40, the age at which Hollywood starts to deem actresses as being over- the-hill and henceforward only suitable for "older woman" roles. On the other hand, this does not seem to have been a problem for Fiorentino's exact contemporary Sharon Stone, also born in 1958, who also got her big break in an erotic thriller, in her case "Basic Instinct", when in her mid-thirties. The film is an example of neo-noir, a type of thriller which takes the conventions of the original films noirs of the forties and fifties and adapts them to a modern style of film-making. "The Last Seduction" appears to have been inspired by one of the greatest films noirs, "Double Indemnity", which also featured a seductive, manipulative woman (played in that film by Barbara Stanwyck) and a character who worked for an insurance company. At one point the expression "double indemnity" is even mentioned in the script.The film is not quite as visually distinctive as some other neo-noirs such as "Body Heat", "Gorky Park", "Insomnia" or Polanski's "Chinatown", sometimes regarded as the film which started the neo-noir genre. In most other respects, however, it is excellent, with an ingenious plot, gripping action, some great acting and some sharp dialogue. It also has a vividly memorable anti-heroine in the shape of the glamorous, intelligent, resourceful yet utterly evil Bridget. I would rank it in the same class as that other great neo-noir from the nineties, "LA Confidential", which earned itself nine Academy Award nominations, including "Best Picture", and brought Kim Basinger an Oscar for "Best Supporting Actress". Certainly, there was talk of a "Best Actress" nomination for Fiorentino for "The Last Seduction", but in the event the film was not nominated for a single Oscar. This, however, had nothing to do with any lack of quality; it was ruled ineligible because it had been shown on HBO before it was released to theatres. Perhaps if Fiorentino had won, or even been nominated, her subsequent career would have been a lot more stellar. 8/10

Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) is a telemarketing manager running a croaked boiler room. Her husband Clay Gregory (Bill Pullman) sells stolen pharmaceuticals for a big payday. She steals his money and leaves NYC. She stops at Beston on her way to Chicago. Mike Swale (Peter Berg) is tired of small town girls. She walks into the bar and he's smitten. Her lawyer Frank Griffith (J.T. Walsh) tells her to stay put while he starts the divorce. She gets a job as Wendy Kroy but Mike happens to work at the company. Clay is desperate to pay off a loan shark and manages to track her to an area code. Then he figures out that New York backwards is Wen Kroy and sends Harlan (Bill Nunn) to find Wendy.The bar scene is terrific and it's all about Linda Fiorentino. That goes for the whole movie. Her character is a real piece. Peter Berg is a good sucker and Bill Pullman is a good sleaze. It's surprisingly funny at times. It's all attitude and Fiorentino is dripping in it. Her dialog is neo-noir and snappy. I love the dark turns and her glee with making those turns.