Unfaithful
Review by By Clint Morris
 In
the first chapter of his "Sex gets you nowhere"
anthology Nine and A Half Weeks, director Adrian Lyne
proved that consuming any part of Mickey Rourke can be bad
for your health.
He also explained to audiences the negatives of having a
Fatal Attraction for a married man, and proceeded to
inform us just how much your wife would be worth if you sold
her to another in Indecent Proposal. In his latest
'say no to sex' salute, Unfaithful, he centres in on
a cheating wife, and the hole she digs for herself.
Remotely interesting, but borderlining on the ridiculous,
Unfaithful stars Diane Lane as the licentious hotpants
wife, and Richard Gere as the faithful, but explicitly jealous
husband. She bumps into a handsome stranger (Martinez) while
doing her usual chores, and within days is pulled back to
the stranger's apartment for chat, coffee and canoodling.
Sneaking out each day to meet the handsome stranger - whether
it be steamy sex in a movie theatre or upon the wall of his
apartment entrance - she's invisible to the fact that it's
going to ultimately harm her husband and young son. Having
a private investigator confirm his suspicious, our husband
plans the ultimate payback on his wife's Latino lover.
Unfaithful is quite novel. It successfully keeps the
audience engrossed in its slanting tale and intriguing plot.
However, once the film shifts into mystery thriller mode half-way
through, it all gets a little too ridiculous to take seriously.
Diane Lane is looking super-sexy, and obviously has no problems
shedding the gear for the cameras. She's also quite at home
in the role of the spicy wife, out to get some much needed
action. Gere, on the other hand, is seemingly sleep walking
through the role, looking very uninterested with the whole
affair. Martinez, as the token lover, has little to do but
slur sweet nothings.
Lyne's got the knack for these kind of sexy sizzlers, but
he's also well known for exaggerating the likely to the point
of absurdity and, unfortunately, he's done too much of that
here. Saucy Diane Lane is at her best, but she's picked the
wrong vehicle.
2.5 out of 5
Unfaithful
Australian release: Thursday July 4th
Cast: Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Oliver Martinez, Erik Per
Sullivan, Dominic Chianese, Margaret Colin, Chad Lowe.
Director: Adrian Lyne.
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