Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

BasicLogic Gee, this 1990 movie is now viewed in February 2018, time really really flies, dude. Look at the cast who were in 1990, Jesus, all of them looked so young and so beautiful: James Spader, Wow, what a handsome dude! But now in "The Blacklist", now quite so. Jason Alexander, he still got full thick hair in 1990 (or he's already wearing wig, because in "Seinfeld" he was already as bald as a bald eagle!) Kathy Bates, still such a beautiful, attractive even sexy woman. Susan Sarandon, my my, she might be the only person who didn't change too much, because she still looked pretty sexy in "Ray Donovan (2017)". What an evergreen woman she is!The Nora Baker role she played lived in a dump, a typical slob who lost the will and interest to live well. I just wonder why I didn't see cockroaches in that house. Why I didn't see cockroaches crawling on Max Baron's drunken body..."When is the last you had a date?" "What if I told you I wasn't interested in getting laid right now?" "Interest in getting laid is the human condition. For Christ's sake, Max. It's all around you..."Then, INSHALLA, he just got laid that night! Good for him!

willmurphy6663 i read the reviews of loved and hated this film, and as you can guess i am on of the ones that have loved it. I can understand that people find the story implausible, because of the age difference and the social and cultural differences of the love story. i suppose having been in a few love across the divide love stories myself i identify and understand the motivations of the two characters and what the director is trying to say. Both James Spader and Susan Sarrandon are lost in the film, James had lost his lover and all meaning in his life, and Susan has lost her son, and her self respect and is being self destructive to herself. She has a truth which she teaches him on their first meeting, where she accurately reads him, and shows him how to let go and have a good time and have contact. The original sex scene which some people hate in the reviews is my all time favourite. If the sexes were reversed it would verge on rape, but because it is female on male it doesn't feel that way. the way she holds him down catches him unawares and drags him into this sexual and emotional awakening is what makes it so electrifying for me. James spader's night after rejection of her rings true, and for most people it would end there....but he goes on and they really learn off each other...maybe as i have found in real life it would end, but i think that love is about two people coming together having contact being together loving and learning from each other.So may people that i see staying together in so called sensible compatible marriages don't have what you see these two having together for however long.......

Roedy Green There is a huge hump to get over in this movie, suspending disbelief at the relationship between Max and Nora. It is just too ridiculous. Max is so pretty, rich, stable, tactful, considerate, laid back and clean and Nora is so filthy, a smoker, a drunk, tactless, inconsiderate, crude, rude, selfish and lightning quick to take offense. What on earth does he see in her? The problem is not just them coming from such different social backgrounds; it is she is such an unlikeable character.The prolonged soft-porn scenes early in the movie made me squirm. I found them revolting. They went on and on and on, as if they were supposed to be some sort of eye candy for us to ogle. The movie degenerated into one of those late night soft porn flicks where the simulated sex goes on and on as if to give the viewer time to get off himself. I felt unclean spying for so long. I was screaming to myself "Enough already! I get the point. Please get on with the movie." I turned away until these scenes were over.When you meet Max's mother, his shallow old girlfriends and friends you begin to see why Nora's shoot-from-the-lip directness could have some appeal (but certainly not enough for his obsessive sexual attraction.) Perhaps pity has some part of the appeal but again nothing to explain the obsession.Spader is always a treat to watch and that applies to this film as well, even though he grossed me out with the sex scenes.

MarieGabrielle there are very few romance or romantic comedies, which strike a real note for the audience, or anyone who appreciates reality and decent acting.This film does have that. Sarandon is very good; she is a "down-at-heel" waitress, almost twenty years older than the character portrayed by Spader. Some of the interactions are amusing and sad. Her drinking, her loss of a child. Spader's background is respectable, white-collar but bored, he meets Sarandon after missing his deceased wife.Films like this are sometimes underrated. There was not a lot of hype about this film, which is one of the reasons I like it (We do not need Hollywood to tell us what's good, i.e. "The Break Up", which was actually not good).While the scenes with Spader's relatives were a bit stereotyped, overall there are a few good messages here. Life doesn't always work out how we want, "perfect couples" aren't necessarily happy, and the Spader character was actually quite good, not being the negative insensitive character here. Definitely worth viewing. 8/10.