An average movie

Since my wife is a big fan of this movie, she made me watch this again. I think I already watched it before but it was a long time ago. Anyway, Julia Roberts made this flick just a year after ‘Pretty woman’ and her star was rising really quickly back then. Honestly, I have to confess, I have never been a fan of Julia Roberts and I thought it was definitely one of her weaker outings. I mean, it was watchable, I give you that and there was a nice steamy sex scene with Roberts, something I never seen her do anymore in the future, still this scene was rather awkward since it was involving her abusive husband. Anyway, honestly, I thought it was a rather lame thriller with a terrible generic and pedestrian plot. Julia Roberts tries very hard to make her character interesting but the guy portraying her husband (I forgot his name and I seriously don’t want to look it up…) was just pretty bad, cheesy and really unconvincing. To conclude, even though it might have been a success when it was released, I thought it was a really tedious thriller and it is not really worth a look , expect maybe if you are a die-hard fan of Julia Roberts.

5/10