Impulse

April. 15,2008      R
Rating:
4.7
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Acting on impulse, Claire Dennison (Willa Ford), enjoys a brief fling with a sexy stranger (a dead ringer for her husband), only to realize that the object of her desire is a crazed, manipulative, and tenacious psychopath.

Angus Macfadyen as  Jonathan Dennison / Simon Phillips
Willa Ford as  Claire Dennison
Robert Moloney as  Elliott
Ron Selmour as  Hector
Ingrid Torrance as  Melissa
Laura Soltis as  Joan
Nancy Sivak as  Officer Stevens
Michael J Rogers as  Officer Edwards
Lowela Jotie as  Jen
Richard Stroh as  Sam

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Reviews

Hellen
2008/04/15

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Konterr
2008/04/16

Brilliant and touching

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HeadlinesExotic
2008/04/17

Boring

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Freeman
2008/04/18

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

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MBunge
2008/04/19

If you watch Impulse, you'll gain a new respect for Angus MacFayden because he seems to be the only one involved that appreciated what a laughably silly movie it is.Claire Dennison (Willa Ford) is the head of her own advertising firm. That doesn't actually have anything to do with this story, but I think the filmmakers give the character a position of authority and achievement to distract the audience from how stupidly she behaves. Claire is married to Jonathan (Angus MacFayden), a plump, passionless and much older psychologist who overthinks everything. The romantic spark has gone out of their marriage to the point where Jonathan worries more about what he's got cooking on the stove than his lingerie-clad wife who is trying to seduce him. Then, when Claire is out of town for a meeting, she sees Jonathan show up in the hotel bar, pretending to be a mysterious stranger looking to ravish her. They have sex, during which Willa Ford keeps her bra on and the fireplug-like MacFayden thankfully keeps his shirt on. They repeat the role-playing when Claire is out of town again but the next morning, Claire gets a call on her cell phone from her husband who's still back home. It turns out the man she's slept with wasn't Jonathan pretending to be someone else. It was someone else who just happens to look exactly like Jonathan.You can probably guess where the story goes from there. The other guy, named Simon Philips, becomes obsessed with Claire. He pursues her, stalks her and when he finds out he and Jonathan are dopplegangers, he cooks up a plan to switch places with Jonathan without Claire knowing the difference. Jonathan ends up having to escape a mental ward and fight Simon, with Claire having to decide which of the identical men she should shoot.I think I can sum up the essential nature of Impulse by pointing out the movie doesn't use any of that new fangled computer technology to let one actor play two identical characters. No, writer/director Charles T. Kanganis relies on the exact same camera and editing tricks pioneered more than few decades ago by The Patty Duke Show. When you're making a film in the 21st century and it's no more sophisticated than "It's cousins! Identical cousins, come what may!"…you really ought to stop and wonder if there isn't something else you should be doing with your time.Willa Ford looks good nude but has only an average-looking face. She does display a nice personality and you'll mistake that for actual acting talent at the start of Impulse. As the story goes along and her performance gets worse and worse and worse, you'll realize that "reality show host" is what Ford is best suited for. In fairness to Ford, though, Impulse is so poorly written and generically directed that her lack of skill isn't that noticeable.The only noteworthy thing about Impulse is the game that MacFayden appears to be playing with the filmmakers. Kanganis clearly thinks he's making some sort of serious thriller, but MacFayden's acting as both Johnathan and Simon is closer to spoof or parody territory. It's like MacFayden went through the entire production trying to see just how much he could ham it up without anyone recognizing that he was making fun of how ridiculous the movie is. His acting isn't so over-the-top that it completely clashes with the dramatic tone of everything else, but every once in a while it's as though MacFayden is winking at the audience and saying "Yeah, I know this movie sucks. I didn't get paid that much for Braveheart and need the money."If you'd like to see Willa Ford naked or see an actor get away with mocking a film without the director or the producers noticing what he's doing, rent Impulse. Otherwise, you'll probably be better off renting one of the billion or so erotic thrillers made by Shannon Tweed in the 90s.

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Claudio Carvalho
2008/04/20

The gorgeous and sexy Claire Dennison (Willa Ford) is the successful manager of the advertisement agency Image Engine and married and in love with the middle-aged psychologist Jonathan Dennison (Angus Macfadyen). Their life is perfect but Jonathan is not good in bed, frustrating Claire's desires. When a colleague suggests Claire to fantasize with Jonathan to bring passion to their relationship and have kinky sex with her husband, she pretends to be a sexy Italian but Jonathan does not participate in the game, and Claire asks him "to play the Italian lover Robert" in the future. When Claire travels in a job assignment, she sees Jonathan fashionably dressed and wearing a different hair style in the hotel lobby and she drags him to her room and has kinky sex with him. Then they schedule through e-mail a next encounter in New York; in the morning, Jonathan calls Claire in the cell phone and she realizes that the man on her bed is a complete stranger. Sooner the man stalks Claire and introduces himself to her as Simon Phillips; she discovers that the Simon is psychopath obsessed for her and jeopardizing her married life."Impulse" has an absurd plot, and only if the viewer believes in perfect doubles and coincidences he or she may like this flick. There is no credibility in the story and in the characters. Claire is a sexy woman in the top of her professional career but has a monotonous life with her husband. It is hard to believe that a woman like Willa Ford be in deep love with an unattractive, boring and fat man like Jonathan. Then she meets Wilson in a work trip and in her hunger she does not recognize any difference between Jonathan and Wilson. Is that possible, smell, voice, sex, everything identical in two men that are not siblings? Last but not the least, Simon could not know details of Jonathan's personal life, therefore Jonathan being arrested claiming to be himself and his situation in the mental institution are simply ridiculous. Then the plot becomes the conventional story that every Saturday the broadcast TV transmit, with a psychopath stalking a family etc. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "Desejo e Obsessão" ("Desire and Obsession")

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hiteshrawat
2008/04/21

Well this movie turned out what I'd like to say as the usual cause there was nothing in the movie which I can say I felt new. The basic story is something I have seen a lot and this made the movie so unexciting. I saw the whole just to find out where it differs from the usual.The only difference was the rich women finds a man identical to her husband and thus does "it" with him without knowing that he isn't the right man and when she finds the fact that he isn't his hubby then she asks him to leave but till now this man converts to a stalker and psychopath. Then the usual what you can think of easily.Yea the only think I liked about the movie was there was a really good foreplay scene.

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Tom DeFelice
2008/04/22

First: A beautiful, smart, talented professional woman at the top of her game is married to a tubby quiet middle-aged professor-type who she truly loves. The only flaw is he refuses the kinky sex she craves.Second: In Southern California there are two identical looking tubby middle-aged men (with slightly different hair and one wears glasses). These men are so identical in appearance that even after the woman sleeps with the one who is not her husband; she can't tell the difference.Third: The husband's doppleganger happens to be an obsessive homicidal maniac.If you can accept it, then you are in for a pretty standard erotic thriller. Glamour. Female nudity. A bit of violence. It's pretty regular fare for the genre. The big problem is in taking a leap of faith with the absurdity of the premise. It was a leap I just couldn't take.

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