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Absolutely Fantastic

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

A doctor hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she suspects of cheating, though unforeseen events put the marriage in danger. Chloe wastes a good cast and idea early on in the film since everything that it does is a mistake and a bland direction that doesn't even go anywhere to begin with. (0/10)

This movie is a remake of a french drama Nathalie... (2003) with Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, Gérard Depardieu, only with a different, typical for Hollywood ending. WATCH NATHALIE before commenting on Chloe. If you did not watch Nathalie, you might even like Chloe, but it doesn't stand to the French version. The acting other than Julianne Moore is horrible. I don't remember a single movie with Liam Neeson where his acting talents(if he has it) shine. Amanda Seyfried was good in Mama Mia, but certainly isn't up to the task in Chloe. Chloe is full of empty dialogues that have no relation to the story whatsoever (sneezing, zinc, son's problems etc. ????!!!) This is the same situation as with "The vanishing", 1993 French version and 1998 Hollywood version. The original beats the remake.

Catherine (Julianne Moore) and David Stewart (Liam Neeson) are a professional upper class couple with teenage son Michael. It's a perfect life on the surface but Catherine begins to suspect David cheating on her. She hires call girl Chloe (Amanda Seyfried) to test his fidelity. Chloe reports her encounters back to Catherine. Chloe is complicated and has a sexual tryst with Catherine.The three lead actors have amazing pedigrees. Atom Egoyan has directed sexually ambitious movies before but this one has no heat. I do like the performances but Egoyan has instilled a coldness throughout the film. It keeps the sexual tension down when it should be boiling over. Although it could be argued that Egoyan wanted a chilling effect for this overheated premise. I don't buy it but I do still love the actors and it's beautifully shot.

A married doctor wife suspects that her professor husband is cheating on her, so she hires a young prostitute to lure him and see what will happen. The results are far from what she was expecting.Julianne Moore gives a stellar performance in the character of a troubled wife and Liam Neeson is more hansom than usual. Amanda Seyfried as the titular character seems OK but other actresses could have done better.The film has a sensual feel (and some nudity and sex scenes) and the music works towards that direction.You keep guessing what will happen next, and if the movie take a 180o turn at any point. There are some "surprises" so to speak but overall the ending disappoints.It is good for a nightly viewing before sleep but It could have been so much more....