Simply A Masterpiece

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

FATAL ATTRACTION is a psychological thriller about the perfect family gone wrong, about one simple affair capable of destroying lives. Glenn Close does well as the psychopathic love affair. She and the entire cast deliver solid performances. The story keeps you going and the ending is truly suspenseful.However, FATAL ATTRACTION is a long haul away from being a masterpiece. The cinematography is quite generic. Dialogues are shot in long shot / re-shot sequences. Everything is set in rather dull environments: office rooms and bleak city apartments. However, it is the movie's pacing that is its biggest downfall. While FATAL ATTRACTION does pick up speed towards the end, the first half felt like a drag. I'm a fan of slow movies, but here the pace just wasn't justified. For such a pace, you need more than just generic archetypes such as "the perfect wife" and "the loving husband". The characters don't go much beyond what we've (since then) seen in many many movies.How has FATAL ATTRACTION aged? Yes, there's violence and sex that at the time must have been shocking... but audiences today are accustomed to more extreme stuff and may be bored by this late 80's flick. I'm not saying they should've turned this into a gory slasher movie ... but the movie ain't all that deep to really justify the "psycho" in "psychothriller".The other thing that hasn't aged so well is the 80's synth tunes... which just feel cheesy to modern audiences! ;-)

A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family. Fatal Attraction (1987) was one of the very first films about a stalker that blindly falls for it's victim and basically stalks every movie that he makes and it's easily one of the better films about that small and forgotten genre it's not just great as a horror film but it's also great as a suspenseful thriller that will keep you at the edge of your seat. Glenn Close gives a terrific and believable performance as this crazy woman that stalks Michael Douglas who is also pretty damn great in this film. The final shot of the movie itself during the bathtub sequence feels like an actual horror movie and it is one and a pretty damn great one indeed. The story is focused on one thing and one thing only which is obsession it doesn't try to go on a different direction or try something else it knows what it is and it's a pretty damn serious film it might have some of the classic horror film over the top moments but it doesn't get ridiculous or ruins the movie for the viewer. I can also buy the fact that it was nominated for 6 Oscars since it was pretty damn great and for that i'm going to give it an A+

Watching this movie always feels like a documentary explaining laws of nature. It is a surprise for me how things in real world do not end like that. I don't feel the Glenn Close character is the villain but the victim. I don't see this movie as a thriller but as something 99% possible and probable.

It's hard to believe Fatal Attraction is almost 30 years old, and wow, what a groundbreaking movie it was at the time. I wonder how many male viewers were shocked into making chastity pledges to their better halves after walking out of the cinema.I think a modern day reboot is required, maybe with a same-sex relationship or something like that? One scene I remember in Fatal Attraction, when Alex (Glenn Close) blew off her date (off scene) to have dinner with Michael Douglas's character, which in turn led to their fateful (and eventually fatal) and passionate encounter at Alex's place, starting in the kitchen and then the bedroom. I think a criterion DVD release should feature cut scenes of who this mystery date (that Alex blew off) was, and how he coped with the news that Alex was obsessed with Gallagher (Michael Douglas), and how it was a close shave.One motif in Fatal Attraction is dancing and unsafe sex. Here the dancing happens after unsafe sex, and in Romancing the Stone and Basic Instinct, Michael Douglas's character danced with the characters played by Kathleen Turner and Sharon Stone, respectively, before embarking on unsafe sex.