ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Benjamin Cox As IMDb seem to have misplaced my first review for this picture (silly them), I shall try again. I confess, this might be a little difficult having seen the movie once and some time ago but I shall try my best. The gap between film viewing and film reviewing might not be so bad if "The Right Temptation" was in any way memorable. But it isn't at all so please bear with me.Rebecca DeMornay plays an ex-cop with issues (and which law enforcement officer worth their wage doesn't have issues?) who is hired by the wife of Kiefer Sutherland (played by Dana Delany) to spy and flirt with her husband, as a test of loyalty. You needn't be a rocket scientist to work out that the whole thing gets out of hand and DeMornay ends up bedding Sutherland (all together now, "eeuuuew!"). But before you can say "no-nudity clause", a murder throws her life out of control. Yes, it really is that dull. And despite thinking that it's a classic piece of film noir, this is little more than a glorified TVM with a few big names in the cast to justify the budget.Acting is decidedly suspect, especially from Sutherland as the dumb sap involved with both women. He must give thanks every day that "24" came along to rescue his career from dross like this. DeMornay, to be fair, was getting long in the tooth by this stage and I certainly can't remember anything she's done more recently than this. The film is boring in the extreme - most wildlife documentaries are more interesting than this movie. And they're also just as predictable - it's almost as though the film makers were so scared of upsetting anybody that they ended up making the most middle-of-the-road thriller you can imagine. It's the movie equivalent of Katie Melua - safe, sterile and utterly uninvolving. Avoid.

mjstock For what must have been perceived as weaknesses in otheraspects of the film that would have given it the tension and grit thatit needed, the director substituted abrupt "high schoolish" boomsand crashes as well as foul language that just seemed to be outof place. Otherwise, it was a mostly unremarkable hour-and-a-half's entertainment.As one other reviewer noted, it is interesting (she called it "heroic"or something like that) the two female stars managed to bareabsolutely no skin in an "R" rated movie for reasons of "sexualcontent." Maybe Ms. Delany and Ms. DeMornay had "no nudity" intheir contracts because of their maturity and the ramificationsassociated with the same.

dromasca Don't be tempted to see this movie, unless you really have nothing better to do. The series of NYC yuppie mysteries produced much better films than this very boring and un-interesting production. The story of an attractive ex-police woman, now a PI, hired to follow a married man and getting involved with the subject of her inquiry is too expected to catch the attention. The resulting triangle cannot create the much needed sexual tension, and what should have been a series of surprises can be predicted many film minutes in advance. Conventional acting and a foggy ending do not add too much. 5/10 on my personal scale.

FlickJunkie-2 This film has a good story that unravels at the end. Still, for a small independent film, it is intriguing, handling the mystery element well. Derien (Rebecca De Mornay) is a former vice cop now working as a private detective. Anthea (Dana Delaney) hires her to follow her husband Michael (Kiefer Sutherland) to see if he is cheating on her. After a few uneventful days of surveillance, Anthea is still not satisfied, so she adds a new dimension to the assignment. She proposes that Derien try to seduce her husband to test his fidelity. His response is predictable; the rest is not.The story has some interesting and innovative twists, but becomes incongruous at the end. Without giving away the ending, all I can say is the director needed to do more research on forensics, because a suspect who is arrested for murder in the film would have been cleared 30 minutes after being detained in the real world.The cast gives a solid performance. Kiefer Sutherland has played so many demented characters in his career that it is something of a shock seeing him in so normal a role. His character is no angel, but at least he isn't a sociopath. Sutherland gives a good performance but makes his character almost too nice. Rebecca De Mornay is back in shape, after a flaccid performance in `A Table for One'. This is actually the best I can remember her in quite some time. She is effective at rendering a character that is tough on the outside and tortured on the inside, with more than one weak spot in her psyche. Dana Delany is devious and duplicitous as the scheming wife.Overall, this B movie could have been better, but it is far from bad. I rated it a 6/10. If you enjoy mysteries, it might be worth a try.