The city is home to many people from the creative industry, including artists, musicians, directors, actors, and writers. DropApk KatFile ZippyShare Online 05 Online 06, 107 Trigonometry: The Love Triangle Edition Oh but what bad luck this cheater has. Weird, but okay. When Tracie starts going back to work, Derrick starts to feel unsure about her, and she in turn feels that he is keeping too close an eye on her. She dies, he lives. "[16] Metacritic reports a weighted average score of 42 out of 100 based on 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". The website's critics consensus reads: "While it's better than a fair number of other adultery-fueled stalker films, Fatale fails to generate as much heat as the superior erotic thrillers it evokes. Sign up to get it sent straight to your inbox and don't forget to join our Watch This Facebook Group for daily TV recommendations and discussions with other readers. He certainly makes it look good with cinematography by the great Dante Spinotti, who brings out the neon gloss of Los Angeles. 108 The Way You Change Me That retrograde attitude might at least be vaguely tolerable if Fatale leaned harder into its inherent cheesiness. Or just 'bad'? Director Deon Taylor is thus left having to figure out how to make David Lougherys bare bones screenplay work. The best she has to work with in this movie is the required moment where she goes bonkers on someone with a butcher knife. In something like The Crush a student becomes fixated on a professor, and in those classic guilty pleasures like Fatal Attraction, a wealthy man tends to sleep with the wrong woman who then feels spurned. Soon enough theyre in her hotel room and the next morning, full of post-cheating guilt, Derrick lies and says he has to get to Seattle. And guess who shows up as the lead investigator on the case? Fatale has a curious lack of understanding what constitutes a good obsession, psycho-sexual thriller. And as we see in a few brief scenes with her ex-husband (Danny Pino), with whom shes embroiled in an ugly custody battle over their young daughter, this is a pattern of behavior with her. The last scene has Derrick riding through the city while Terrence J and Angie from The Shade Room discuss over the radio that Derrick was officially exonerated, but they also advise male listeners to not cheat, period. The movie initially sets up our lead, Derrick (Ealy) having dinner with best friend and business partner Rafe (Colter), Rafe's new girlfriend, and Derrick's obviously unhappy wife Tracie (Damaris Lewis) whose displeasure with her husband is comically clear. But after an hour and forty minutes of rich people cheating on each other and a lunatic cop trying to frame and stab her way to full custody of her child, trying to pack a socio-political message feels like just extra clutter in a thriller that cant even get the erotic part right. She makes it clear that she will not reveal anything to Tracie since she also doesnt need to have her coworkers learn about what she does in her private time, and she is committed to finding out who broke into the house. 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. She admits she is also looking for casual sex, and after flirting on the dance floor, they end up in her hotel room. The next morning, the police come and ask Derrick to come to the station where Valerie confronts him with pictures of a murdered Rafe and Tracie. Although he wants Tyrin to do better, Derrick helps him out with some money. and instructs him to look at a beach house window where he sees Rafe and Tracie having an affair. Fatale is the kind of movie that depicts Valeries previous alcoholism and the mistakes she made while drunk not as a trait that reveals her humanity or vulnerability, but rather as a lazy shorthand. The Starkman Building offers scenic views of the L.A. skyline, city bridges, and the San Gabriel Mountains. In August 2019, Lionsgate acquired distribution rights to the film. 109 - You Made Me Who I Am 110 - A Passionate Goodbye (Series Finale) Let us go through the details about the filming locations! Plot [ edit] Later on, Valerie picks Derrick up from work and takes him near a beach house where she believes she has found a new development. But more awfully, in a flashback we learn that in a drunken stupor Valerie left her gun out on the bed and her daughter took it and shot herself accidentally, leaving her paralysed and resulting in Val losing custody which went, instead, to her ex. The rest of Fatale develops the way you would sadly expect. When Derrick goes home, he looks up Valerie on Google to see that she is a decorated officer, and the incident with Hayley is also mentioned. Are Perfect Match's Joey and Kariselle together? Swank, who broke into the scene with the amazing Boys Dont Cry and has starred in great films like Million Dollar Baby, might be reaching that career stage where her agent needs to find that golden comeback script. She conducts herself professionally and asks the questions that she needs to ask before she leaves. Derrick tries to warn Carter, but the man attacks him and Derrick accidentally shoots Carter dead. When he tries to react, she pulls a gun and makes it clear she can kill him in self-defense. Derrick is horrified at this discovery, but Valerie comes up with a possible motive. She jumps him and stabs him repeatedly in the elevator until he shoots her back fatally. As the jilted woman who drives the films busy and bloody plot, Swank is strangely subdued. The suspicion this throws on Derrick ruins his reputation and a district attorney intends to file charges. During a trip to Vegas, Derrick meets a woman named Valerie Quinlan, and the two engage in a brief affair. Back home, a criminal breaks into the Tyler home. Instead "Fatale" becomes the movie equivalent of a speedily-written dime novel or late night throwaway on cable TV. Christy Lemire is a longtime film critic who has written for RogerEbert.com since 2013. She, however, lives long enough to stab him before he gets the knife and stabs her, revealing he had recorded her entire confession and the cops are on their way. He obviously feels guilty over his actions and isnt a tyrant at home. While trying to sneak out the next morning, Derrick discovers that she has locked his phone in the room safe and is coerced into having sex with her again. [12][13] The film fell to sixth in its second weekend, grossing $659,825, then made $701,561 in its third weekend. To Derricks horror, the lead detective on the case is Valerie. Hilary Swank switches from a cheerful one-night stand to a deranged maniac convincingly, even if the script doesnt set it up well. If you truly feel compelled to see it just wait for a VOD release. They break into her house and get her on the ground, but she feigns sickness and asks to go to the bathroom. [8] It was then scheduled to be released on October 30, 2020, however, it was pushed to 2021 in early October. [9] However on November 23, 2020, it was moved up to December 18, 2020. Theyre all crazy, or adulterous, or murderous, or all of the above. In her spare time, Valerie stalks her ex-husband, local politician Carter Heywood, who filed a restraining order against her after Valerie left her service weapon unattended while drunk and their daughter, Haley, accidentally shot herself, leaving the latter using a wheelchair. The property is spread over an area of approximately 27,700 square feet and comprises five loft spaces that range from 1,500 to 5,000 square feet. Derrick and Rafe go to Vegas for a bachelor party. O seu endereo de e-mail no ser publicado. After he left her place, Derrick more than likely went to Rafes place and caught him and Tracie in the act. His domain is a gorgeous house up in the Hollywood Hills where he lives with gorgeous wife Traci (Damaris Lewis), who bemoans that hes away at work so often. It also has an attached one-story warehouse that doubles up as various settings, including an apartment, industrial warehouse, city block, and even a 20th-century sidewalk. The next day, Derrick is arrested and Valerie tells him that Tracie and Rafe were murdered soon after he left them. She recognizes him but doesnt give anything away. Her custody battle with an ex who happens to be a local government official, feels like a completely different movie. Her reasoning for doing this to Derrick? Once he returns home to L.A. and treats his wife to a guilt-induced romantic evening, a violent home invasion interrupts their intimacy. That night, though, their house is broken into and Derrick, fighting off the gun-wielding robber, is nearly killed. Theres little sympathy to be had for any of these characters. Deon Taylors second project with Michael Ealy, Fatale, is a thriller film that revolves around a successful sports agent, Derrick (Ealy), whose life starts to unravel after his one-night stand with Detective Valerie (Hilary Swank). Before that, she was the film critic for The Associated Press for nearly 15 years and co-hosted the public television series "Ebert Presents At the Movies" opposite Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, with Roger Ebert serving as managing editor. Rated R Valerie brings Derrick to a beach house where they find Rafe and Tracie having an affair. She dies, he lives. Most of us can agree thats a bit extreme considering they were both consensual adults during their brief tryst. But back to Derrick, who is a successful Los Angeles sports agent and former college athlete living the life few renters in the city will ever know. He escapes before two other women discover Carters body. But is the thriller part of the so bad it's good camp? Valerie suspects that Derrick returned with a gun and murdered them. He is also married to Tracie, but he feels that their marriage has hit a bump. Valerie also suggests that Tracie hired the burglar to kill Derrick. Are you curious to know where the movie was filmed? Tyrin and a friend break into Valerie's home, but after a scuffle she kills them. Its another parable about spouses going astray and bringing back home serious trouble. [12], Michael Ordona of the Los Angeles Times said it was fun to see Swank in a "different part" than her other films. The Big Five studios, where countless films, scripted television shows, and reality shows continue to be filmed, are also located in L.A. Its pacing is too slack to serve as a gripping romantic thriller. The warehouse has an interior stage set up, complete with skylights and catwalks so that the place can be transformed as per the filming requirement. DropApk KatFile ZippyShare Online 07 Online 08, 109 You Made Me Who I Am She informs Derrick of this by encouraging him to peer into the window at the beach house where they rendezvous with binoculars to see for himself. Despite its slick aesthetics, with gorgeous stars in luxurious clothes driving flashy cars and enjoying multimillion-dollar views from the beachfront to the hilltop, Fatale is weirdly dull. From the first moment Derrick and Valerie meet at the bar and he accidentally spills a drink on her slinky dress, theres a directness about Swanks delivery that conflicts with Ealys steamy demeanor. 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