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Killing Me Softly
(2002)
Alice (Heather Graham) is a software designer who's living in London. Six months after living there she begins living with Jake (Jason Hughes). She feels very safe and loved with Jake and loves how comfortable they are together. One day on her way to work she has a sexually charged moment with a stranger. She sees him enter a bookstore across the street from her work. On her lunch break she sees if he's still there. Their eyes meet once again and they drive to his apartment and have steamy sex. He asks her to come back, but she's uncertain. The next day she returns for some more raunchy sex. She finally learns his name and that the girl he loved was killed in a rock climbing accident. Alice ends up leaving Jake for Adam (Joseph Fiennes) and they spend another passionate night together. Not long after Alice and Adam get married. Alice keeps getting threatening letters in the mail demanding she leave Adam and then she discovers a box of letters to Adam from a old lover. Adam's air of mystery is no longer sexy and intriguing, but terrifying as Alice seeks answers about his past.
You Learn Something New Everyday...
 Nothing says romance like glow sticks.
If you like crazy sex then it's okay for your husband to be abusive.
The best way to save a marriage is to tie your wife to a table.
Zing!
"Love is more than a good fuck." - Alice's friend.
Survey SAYS...
Killing Me Softly is a soft-core porno with a murder mystery plot. The only thing that kept this movie from being a hard core porn was that they didn't show close ups of penetration. I'd expect this from Heather Graham in Boogie Nights, but it hardly seemed necessary in this movie. I could understand one good scene, but there were at least four. Alice and Adam's marriage lacked as much love as this movie lacked a plot.
Killing Me Softly started out pretty well. The sexual tension in the first scene was really realistic, but when Alice leaves her fiance and starts living with him, it crosses the line into just plain ridiculous. I know Joseph Fiennes can act because I saw Shakespeare in Love, but it seems that he's forgotten how to recently. I was fully amused by his brooding looks and angry rants. Near the end of the movie when he yells "Whhhhhy Alice?!" I had to laugh at how melodramatic it sounded.
The biggest problem this movie suffered was the over acting. Every look, every line, even down to how Adam flings off Alice's clothes is completely over the top. A guy steals Alice's purse and Adam just happens to be walking nearby (*cough*stalker*cough*) and then Adam takes off after the guy and then beats him to death. How is that not a little extreme? Then he demands that they marry immediately...AND THEY DO! The only thing these two do is have sex, why do they need to get married for that? She doesn't even learn his name until the next day after they first do it. Really, this is just a personal peeve of mine where people in movies know each other for two days and they're "in love" and whatnot, but what really annoys me is she marries him knowing his name, sister's name, and that he rock climbs for a living. Then suddenly she's surprised he has a shady past? C'mon now. I guess I just don't get these types of movies, but what was the point of it all? They have this whirlwind romance and then they never see each other again. Also, if they're going to throw in incest into the mix, they should at least explore it a little bit. She goes "Who do you think taught him everything he knows�" and "We fucked right here" and then that's that. You know that they didn't know how to end this movie. It's like they went "Alright, well we'll make Adam seem like a crazy killer and his sister normal, but really...she'll be the killer! Because...um...well...because she raped him as a child. Yes, that sounds good." You'd be surprised how many people watch movies for an interesting story. I don't mind a lot of sex in a movie, but holy crap give me a heads up will ya? What if I was watching this movie with my Mom or something?? With a movie like Showgirls I expect nakedness and sex. With Killing Me Softly I thought more emphasis would be on the mysterious past and murders and attempted murders, not these two people humping like rabbits.
So, in all there wasn't much of a movie if you stripped away the sex (heck, it'd probably only be 45 minutes long!), but if that's the kind of movie you're looking for then this is an awesome movie. If they had made more of the movie about Adam's past and his ex-lovers and his relationship with his sister, I think this movie would've been a lot better. If Adam's past was a grave, then the ditch digger only had stuck the shovel in the dirt (sorry, it ties in with the end of the movie, hehe), but instead they chose to make a porno. Have you no shame Ms. Graham? If you like...rock climbing accidents, boobies, lots of sex, incest, cat fighting, and shady looking cats, then this is the flick for you. As for us...we give Killing Me Softly
That Wasn't so Bad Was It?
I was left Feeling: Unimpressed
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