The Last Seduction (1994)
Directed by John Dahl
A devious femme fatale steals her husband’s drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.
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Co-written and directed by Jon Watts (who’s since been tapped to helm the next Spider-Man movie), Cop Car is a surprisingly nasty piece of work, more reminiscent of old John Dahl thrillers from the ’90s ( Red Rock West , The Last Seduction ) than of Let’s Be Cops .
A cautionary tale for horny saps of the sort who populate "Double Indemnity" and "Body Heat," the movie centers on the double-crossing machinations of Bridget Gregory (Fiorentino).
In John Dahl's "The Last Seduction," a post-"Double Indemnity" drama full of plot twists, double-crossings, sexual gyrations and dark pronouncements, Linda Fiorentino persuades her husband Bill Pullman and a ruthless loan shark to finance a drug deal, then skips town with the $700,000.
Director John Dahl (Red Rock West, The Last Seduction) gets the movie off to an unpromising start with routine dorm-room exposition and the juvenile CB stunt, which might have gained more sympathy for the jokesters had Walker's repartee been more clever.
Joy Ride was directed by John Dahl, who did great work on the modern noirs Red Rock West and The Last Seduction, and here he shows his skill at pure thriller.
And it helps to have the right director in this case, John Dahl, who's better known for character-driven thrillers like 1993's "Red Rock West" and 1994's "The Last Seduction."
Like director John Dahl's other well-constructed, hard-driven thrillers -- "The Last Seduction," "Red Rock West" and "Kill Me Again" -- it is a well-traveled road with a lot of unexpected turnoffs.
Though hardly in the same league as filmmaker John Dahl's previous jaunts into thriller territory - ie 1992's Red Rock West, 1994's The Last Seduction, etc - Joy Ride ultimately comes off as a sporadically uneven yet thoroughly entertaining B-movie that boasts a number of genuinely exhilarating sequences and set-pieces.
Her toying with her male counterparts is a little too reminiscent of Basic Instinct and The Last Seduction, while some the modelling scenes could have been deleted scenes from either Pret a Porter or, dare I say it, Showgirls.
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I’ve long stood up for the femme fatale as a character type; some of the best characters in film (and theater) history could be said to fit that description, and it shouldn’t be impossible to be a committed feminist and also to thrill to the man-eating exploits of Linda Fiorentino in The Last Seduction or, hell, Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl (another murder mystery that gave Ben Affleck’s character the short end of the marital stick).
The Last Seduction looked like a career maker for director Dahl and star Fiorentino, but four long years on, this dire effort suggests it could have been a flash in the pan.
His films - which also include Red Rock West and The Last Seduction - specialize in combining twisting plots with subtle dark humor.
The movie was directed by John Dahl , whose "Red Rock West" and "The Last Seduction" are inspired neo-noirs.
The director was John Dahl, who’d directed the moody indie fave The Last Seduction.
An unexceptional, but enjoyable drama by John Dahl, who directed the modern noirs, "The Last Seduction" and "Red Rock West."
First-time screenwriters David Levien and Brian Koppelman and director John Dahl (Red Rock West, The Last Seduction) have embedded Rounders with a plenty of gambling vernacular and local color (with side trips to drab Binghampton, New York, and a garish Atlantic City casino), effectively captured by cinematographer Jean Yves Escoffier ( Good Will Hunting ), but their characters are painted with flat strokes, with the possible exception of the compulsive Worm.
Directed by John Dahl ("Red Rock West," "The Last Seduction"), "Rounders" is lively, swarthy and brimming with potential that it misses by a hair.
An unpredictable, enjoyable mob comedy from director John Dahl ("Red Rock West," "The Last Seduction") and scripted by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely ("The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"), it's the story of Frank (Kingsley), a hit man for the Polish mob in Buffalo.
After acquiring indie cred with his first two features, director John Dahl ("Red Rock West," "The Last Seduction") wasted away in Hollywood mediocrity with his followups ("Rounders," "Joy Ride," "The Great Raid").
Unlike many others who have paid tribute to the genre, Dahl ( Red Rock West , The Last Seduction , etc.) seems to understand its mechanisms from the inside, from an emotional place.
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In many ways, “The Lookout” most resembles the neo-noirs of John Dahl from the ’90s, like “Red Rock West” and “The Last Seduction”.
She is alone with only the delicate alliances of high school and whatever sense of self-worth she can muster, which at first seems to be plenty as she comes across like a younger version of Linda Fiorentino's character in 1994's "The Last Seduction."