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Killing Me Softly [Region 2] | ![Killing Me Softly [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41vMhzoW-0L._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Kaige Chen
Actors: Heather Graham, Joseph Fiennes, Natascha McElhone, Ulrich Thomsen, Ian Hart
Category: DVD
Buy New: $15.27
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Rating:  70 reviews
Sales Rank: 298260
Format: PAL
Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5060002831236
ASIN: B00008OP5P
Theatrical Release Date: June 5, 2002
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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
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 Not a great one by any stretch October 31, 2009
K. Cooper (phila. area)
Sometimes one will watch a movie just to see how it ends. This is one of those movies where you don't have to do that as most folks with an IQ above 30 will have the ending correctly guessed by half an hour into the movie.
The leads give it a go here but the plot doesn't do them any favors as it is never presents believable characters or situations. The London scenery and Graham give the viewer a little to watch as the trite tale unfolds. It's not a bomb but 2 stars is all it deserves.
 killing me softly September 22, 2009
Luis A. N. casares (usa)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
heather graham and joseph fiennes are just spectacular in this steamy sexual odyssey about the addictive and deadly powers of illicit passion. too much of good thing.... can be deadly. when alice(heather 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 investigate...and learns that adam's past and her future may both point to murder. great film.
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)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
intense throughout - satisfying two audiences: looking for love/sex story, criminal/thriller fans. stunning performance by both Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes. highly recommended
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