A great performance in an OK thriller

bwaynef

"The Last Seduction" was produced with theatrical distribution in mind, but it premiered on cable TV, thereby ensuring that Linda Fiorentino's sultry performance--the most acclaimed by a female in 1994--would be disqualified for Oscar consideration.  Too bad.  She would likely have claimed the prize for her smolderingly sexy turn as a promiscuous man killer.  Other than Fiorentino, this film is strictly OK, a modern R-rated update of the kind of 1940's melodramas that offered Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Barbara Stanwyck some of their meatiest roles.

score 6/10

bwaynef 29 March 1999

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