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Killing Me Softly (Unrated Edition) [VHS] | ![Killing Me Softly (Unrated Edition) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410W3HV0G0L._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Kaige Chen
Actors: Heather Graham, Joseph Fiennes, Natascha Mcelhone, Ulrich Thomsen, Ian Hart
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: Video
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Rating:  69 reviews
Sales Rank: 15128
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.3 x 1
UPC: 027616885128
EAN: 0027616885128
ASIN: B00008972N
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Release Date: March 25, 2003
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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
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 inLondon, 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 mysteriousand violent past begins to surface, Alice investigates and learns that Adam's pastand her future may both point to murder!
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 Heather Graham almost makes this worthwhile -- but doesn't October 26, 2008
Daz (Berkeley, CA USA)
Heather Graham was, as always, incredibly sexy in this film.
But alas, I agree with other reviewers who noted the plot here is rather thin. And the demands on the actors' talents are not very high.
And for me, the denouement left me unclear about just who had done just what, as explanation of the mysteries that develop in the course of the story. This in particular left me unsatisfied. (And the only possible explanations are not especially satisfying, even if I knew which is the right one, since they lack any trace of complexity.)
It's a nice song, though.
Average erotic thriller with a shallow heroine September 13, 2008
Allison
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Heather Graham plays Alice, a young woman from Indiana who has moved to London. She seems to have it all--a great job as a web designer and an English boyfriend who is nice, normal person. One morning she locks eyes with a mysterious stranger named Adam Tallis (Joseph Fiennes) and falls instantly in lust. She tracks him down and they have hot sex a couple of times, and Alice quickly ditches her sweet boyfriend who wanted to marry her. The English boyfriend seems like someone who really cares about her and would probably make a great husband, but shallow Alice abruptly dumps him for another man who obviously has a few screws loose. She also impulsively marries this dark, intense man only to find out that all his girlfriends end up dead or missing. Is Adam a murderer?
I had a hard time feeling much sympathy for Alice, since she seems selfish and has no sense whatsoever. She likes Adam because he's dangerous and lives on the edge, but it's obvious that their relationship is based on lust, not love, and will burn itself out.
There is a "twist" at the end, but I've seen similar stuff in other thrillers, and it just lands with a thud. It's just goofy.
The only reason to see this is if you want to see Graham and Fiennes naked. But even the sex scenes feel staged and passionless.
 top rating for this extraordinary romance-thriller July 26, 2008
I. C. Buehler (London, London England)
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 with the Soundtrack December 16, 2007
cvairag (Allan Hancock College)
The only rationale for watching this film is to get off on the players' charms. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But what makes a bad thing worse (and it can't get much worse than this script) - much worse - is the constant repetition of lugubrious strains from the dreadful soundtrack at every turn in the story. So painful was the effect of listening to this riff, that I finally turned off the sound entirely [...]. The action was easier to follow from that point on (which covers how I felt about the screenplay as well). I feel sorry for Ms. Graham, who was raised under the iron fists of backward Mid-western reactionaries, much like Hilary Clinton a generation earlier, and who really makes a sacrifice everytime she disrobes in a flick. But, I guess there'll be some consolation for her when her folks come around begging when they can't afford health insurance.
Killing Me Softly, DVD December 7, 2007
C. Caruso (Virginia)
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!
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