Review of Unfaithful on Filmviews.net
Year2002 ReviewerChris Docker
Richard Gere plays the devoted husband whose wife has an adulterous fling with a young Frenchman. Although there are some plot twists (the less you know the better any luck you might not guess them, obvious as they are), the main factor that makes this film stand out is the fact that we have a man who is cheated on rather than the other way round. Given that the film doesn't aspire to much anyway, this is reasonably interesting perhaps men and women lie in different ways and watching the facial expressions and excuses that guilty wife Connie Sumner comes out with can make interesting and familiar watching to any man who has ever been cheated on. Director Adrain Lyne (Flashdance, Nine and a Half Weeks, Fatal Attraction) comes out with a predictable amount of flesh, soft-focused and made aesthetically acceptable enough to female audiences (he spent years making TV ads!) whilst still offering lazy titillation to late night male viewers probably watching it with their girlfriends.
Rating: 6/10;