This was next up on my list of erotic thrillers that I hadn’t made the time to check out yet. It was a film that always felt like my shit but I just held out from watching it for some reason. Very different than I was expecting. The eroticism never fully develops until near the end and the film itself is maybe less fun than your standard 80’s steamy bot boiler, yet it’s very good. Jason Patric gives one of my favorite performances in this type of movie. Collie, is somebody who thinks they have everything figured out and doesn’t want anybody to think of him as dumb, yet no matter how hard he tries convincing anyone it’s plain and simple to see that he is kind of dumb. The type of plain dumb that comes from getting punched 1000 times in the face over and over again. Usually when a film consists of numerous moments of narration into a characters head by the end of the movie it’s pretty easy to understand exactly what’s going in their mental state. Not the case here due to the way Patric plays it and the characterization that progresses in the film, you’re still left wondering all the way through the credits. Rachel Ward is good too as the elusive Fay, who in her own way tries to use Collie for her own gain but either due to her own loneliness, and or alcoholism, feels a deep connection toward this punch drunk straggler. A very different film than I was thinking that captures perfectly the dark heart of the noirs before.

This was next up on my list of erotic thrillers that I hadn’t made the time to check out yet. It was a film that always felt like my shit but I just held out from watching it for some reason. Very different than I was expecting. The eroticism never fully develops until near the end and the film itself is maybe less fun than your standard 80’s steamy bot boiler, yet it’s very good. Jason Patric gives one of my favorite performances in this type of movie. Collie, is somebody who thinks they have everything figured out and doesn’t want anybody to think of him as dumb, yet no matter how hard he tries convincing anyone it’s plain and simple to see that he is kind of dumb. The type of plain dumb that comes from getting punched 1000 times in the face over and over again. Usually when a film consists of numerous moments of narration into a characters head by the end of the movie it’s pretty easy to understand exactly what’s going in their mental state. Not the case here due to the way Patric plays it and the characterization that progresses in the film, you’re still left wondering all the way through the credits. Rachel Ward is good too as the elusive Fay, who in her own way tries to use Collie for her own gain but either due to her own loneliness, and or alcoholism, feels a deep connection toward this punch drunk straggler. A very different film than I was thinking that captures perfectly the dark heart of the noirs before.

This was next up on my list of erotic thrillers that I hadn’t made the time to check out yet. It was a film that always felt like my shit but I just held out from watching it for some reason. Very different than I was expecting. The eroticism never fully develops until near the end and the film itself is maybe less fun than your standard 80’s steamy bot boiler, yet it’s very good. Jason Patric gives one of my favorite performances in this type of movie. Collie, is somebody who thinks they have everything figured out and doesn’t want anybody to think of him as dumb, yet no matter how hard he tries convincing anyone it’s plain and simple to see that he is kind of dumb. The type of plain dumb that comes from getting punched 1000 times in the face over and over again. Usually when a film consists of numerous moments of narration into a characters head by the end of the movie it’s pretty easy to understand exactly what’s going in their mental state. Not the case here due to the way Patric plays it and the characterization that progresses in the film, you’re still left wondering all the way through the credits. Rachel Ward is good too as the elusive Fay, who in her own way tries to use Collie for her own gain but either due to her own loneliness, and or alcoholism, feels a deep connection toward this punch drunk straggler. A very different film than I was thinking that captures perfectly the dark heart of the noirs before.

This was next up on my list of erotic thrillers that I hadn’t made the time to check out yet. It was a film that always felt like my shit but I just held out from watching it for some reason. Very different than I was expecting. The eroticism never fully develops until near the end and the film itself is maybe less fun than your standard 80’s steamy bot boiler, yet it’s very good. Jason Patric gives one of my favorite performances in this type of movie. Collie, is somebody who thinks they have everything figured out and doesn’t want anybody to think of him as dumb, yet no matter how hard he tries convincing anyone it’s plain and simple to see that he is kind of dumb. The type of plain dumb that comes from getting punched 1000 times in the face over and over again. Usually when a film consists of numerous moments of narration into a characters head by the end of the movie it’s pretty easy to understand exactly what’s going in their mental state. Not the case here due to the way Patric plays it and the characterization that progresses in the film, you’re still left wondering all the way through the credits. Rachel Ward is good too as the elusive Fay, who in her own way tries to use Collie for her own gain but either due to her own loneliness, and or alcoholism, feels a deep connection toward this punch drunk straggler. A very different film than I was thinking that captures perfectly the dark heart of the noirs before.