Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Good start, but then it gets ruined

A Brilliant Conflict

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Disappearing Acts for me was the best movie i have ever seen and trust me it is. My problem with love movies most of the time is the fact that they are often and most times too fictional, but Disappearing Acts was far from that.This movie delivers in all aspect of the word. Its about a young women Zora who movies into an apartment where she meets Franklin a man who was working on her floor lol. At first i thought that these two as a couple would not work out but as the movie progress you get that sense of connection between them remember opposites do attract, and its this difference between them that makes them coming together more special and romantic. I don't want to give too much away but let me say this! i truly love it when a movie provides wonderful sex scenes and trust me Disappearing Acts gives you just that.The love scene especially the last on was amazing i could not stop my body from trembling it was that good and so real. I've got to give props to Sanaa and Wesley for their wonderful performance and for being so real, they made these scene so real and i loved that. all in all this movie comes together perfectly, expect a few laughter, tears and a lot of love a movie worth seeing.

DISAPPEARING ACTS is the 2000 HBO TV movie, based on the novel by Terry McMillan (WAITING TO EXHALE)that examines the relationship that develops between an uneducated and unemployed contractor (Wesley Snipes) and a music teacher/aspiring song writer (Sanaa Lathan) becomes extremely complicated when he gets her pregnant but is unable to support her. Sadly, this movie is an excruciatingly real look at relationships between black couples in society today (and before anyone calls me a bigot, I am black)...two people drawn together by sexual heat and think that this enough to keep them together until the realities of a relationship begin to rear their ugly heads, such as the the woman becoming primary bread winner and supporting both her and her man, but not wanting to give up the sex either. Not to mention the fact that these people are from two completely different worlds...Lathan's circle of friends are all intelligent folk with jobs who feel Lathan is being dragged down by a relationship whose only glue is sex. What happens between Snipes' Franklin and Lathan's Zora is not pretty, but it is undeniably real. It should also be mentioned that one unique aspect of McMillan's novel is that it is written in first person from Franklin and Zora's alternating points of view...one chapter is written by Franklin and the next by Zora, throughout the novel and this fresh perspective of looking at what happens to these people from both sides is lost in the film; however, Snipes and Lathan have never been sexier on screen and it is their chemistry that makes this movie watchable, even if you do end up taking sides, and, trust, you will end up taking sides.

This movie was good but Zora and Frankin should have been more supportive towards each other. At first Franklin helps her move, the next minute they having sex up against the refrigerator. Then Frankin finally tells her that he's still married and has two kids. Which doesn't matter to Zora because she claims she still loves him. Till things started getting rough for Zora and Frankin. Zora had a baby on the way with her music career on the line and Franklin is now unemployed. The situation left Zora vulnerable and learning Franklin is becoming irresponsible all she had to ride on was her music career. To which it didn't fall through. Zora started to realize that Franklin was becoming a burden and told him to leave. In the beginning Franklin told her that work for him wasn't steady and he had few opportunities because he never finished school. Although he landed a union job and took the risk of losing it because of alcohol drinking. But when he did landed the job he wanted a little affection,and she was at the time thinking about herself. Both of them didn't support each other's interest,and that's what caused them to fall short of their dreams. They never really got to know each other. They only grew infatuated with how great they made each other felt in bed. Neither of them discuss their future together and their plans for the baby. But at the end of the movie Franklin shows up at Zora's door to see the baby. She seems reluctant to let him in,though she did and they told each other that they finally reached their goals. As Franklin was leaving she invites him back. Truly a happy ending,but this is an example of becoming lovers before anything else.

Finally this movie has arrived in the United Kingdom after much good reviews from the United States.Snipes and Lathan give great performances. Director Bythewood certainly keeps the movie at the right pace, hard to believe this is her second picture after "Love and Basketball" We should all expect great things from her in the future. I enjoyed this having read the book by Terry Macmillan. Beautifully shot and acted, could have done with deeper roles for John Amos and CCH Pounder but above all a good picture. 8/10