Really sexy thrillers have been absent from movie theaters for quite some while, and I was so thrilled to hear that something
like
Unfaithful had been made. Unfortunately,
Unfaithful has turned out to be less a thriller and more a romance drama than anything else, with a murder thrown in for some flavor.
Adrian Lyne, the director of Fatal Attraction and Lolita, has a flare for sexy movies like this one, but unfortunately, he misread what the audience wanted and decided to go with a slow character piece, instead of a tense drama. Obviously, not everyone will agree with me, but whatever they were expecting, they couldn''t have expected as slow of a movie as is presented in Unfaithful. The movie drags on and on without much in the way of plot development.
The movie is about a suburban wife who falls into the arms of a younger man. They embark on a wild and sexy affair that threatens to shatter her relationship with her son and husband; of course, the husband begins to suspect something and has her followed. That leads to bad things.