Adrian Lyne is an odd director to speak of. Most of his films are erotic thrillers that ooze 90s sleaze while maintaining an 80s vibe. Flashdance is probably his most well known of his non thrillers but for me Jacob's Ladder, his horror entre is his best work. It's been 20 years since his last film, Unfaithful but now he is back with another take of unfaithful marriage. Anna De Armas and Ben Affleck are a couple with an open marriage, only she is the only one that has sex...he just kills her lovers. Premise is great and the book is supposedly praised but the film is a disaster. This is the type of film people mock Affleck for, it is poorly written, has uninteresting characters, feeble dialogue, great nudity and sex scenes, but holy fuck it feels dated. It is like a film made in the mid 00s that felt like it should have come out in the 90s even though the mindset is in the 80s. One of the worst films not of the year, not of the decade, but of the century.
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