Just perfect...

Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

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.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The outline for this movie is almost a duplicate of Play Misty for Me. It starts with a one night stand with no strings attached, and turned into the same Fatal Attraction, even down to the crazed girl coming face to face with the real love of the male's life and the attack. The differences are there, too. The male in this case is married, while the other is just trying for a committed relationship. They have different jobs, live on the opposite coast, etc. This movie was MUCH better done than Play Misty, and they are many years apart so most people probably don't even see the similarities.

The film "Fatal Attraction" is not only a film, but it's also a warning to all viewers that if you decide to play with fire because your life is getting boring, predictable and tiresome, then don't be shocked if you get burned!A normal househusband has a life that many would say was pretty perfect. He has a beautiful and thoughtful wife. He has a well behaved and intelligent little girl. He has a tidy and well furnished apartment and a well paying job, however, in his opinion, his life situation has become restricted because of his obligations and responsibilities. His perception of his life and his life situation has made him think that he is stuck or tied down and so when he meets another attractive woman who shows interest in him, they begin flirting, establish that he is already married and the flirting continues, they both eventually give into temptation and have a sexual encounter. After the sexual encounter, the difference in perception on each other and on the intimate interaction between them begins to show. He thought of it as a bit of fun, and she begins to develop feelings for him. As the film continues, he starts to see her as a threat to his life as she starts to harass him, play mind games with him and she even resorts to emotional blackmail to stop a man, she is beginning to fall in love with, from leaving her on her own. Her character is clearly emotionally vulnerable and he, not knowing, exploited it because he didn't know her that well. His guilt and regret begins to take over him causing him to lose his temper, threaten her and even become violent. The two characters hurt each other throughout the film and eventually, it begins to hurt everyone else who is involved in his life. The moral of this story, I think, is that every decision we make has a positive and negative impact on our lives. Every decision we make can be short term, however, some can be long term, or even go away and come back to haunt us in the future. Being blind to how good you've got it and not appreciating what you have can persuade people to do selfish things and these selfish acts can effect those we love. We all have obligations and responsibilities in our lives, however, we must not let our inner resentment towards those life factors take over and be the reason for our bad and frivolous decisions. I guess what i'm saying is, everyone should take a step back and really look at what they've got sometimes. Remember, there is always someone worse off than you and being greedy and wanting something you shouldn't have, will cost you and in Dan Gallagher's life, he almost lost everything because of a fling and Alex Forrest lost her life!

Watching this movie always feels like a documentary explaining laws of nature. It is a surprise for me how things in real world do not end like that. I don't feel the Glenn Close character is the villain but the victim. I don't see this movie as a thriller but as something 99% possible and probable.

It's hard to believe Fatal Attraction is almost 30 years old, and wow, what a groundbreaking movie it was at the time. I wonder how many male viewers were shocked into making chastity pledges to their better halves after walking out of the cinema.I think a modern day reboot is required, maybe with a same-sex relationship or something like that? One scene I remember in Fatal Attraction, when Alex (Glenn Close) blew off her date (off scene) to have dinner with Michael Douglas's character, which in turn led to their fateful (and eventually fatal) and passionate encounter at Alex's place, starting in the kitchen and then the bedroom. I think a criterion DVD release should feature cut scenes of who this mystery date (that Alex blew off) was, and how he coped with the news that Alex was obsessed with Gallagher (Michael Douglas), and how it was a close shave.One motif in Fatal Attraction is dancing and unsafe sex. Here the dancing happens after unsafe sex, and in Romancing the Stone and Basic Instinct, Michael Douglas's character danced with the characters played by Kathleen Turner and Sharon Stone, respectively, before embarking on unsafe sex.