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NUMBERS
Box Office: $6,543,347
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CONSENSUS
The thriller Femme Fatale is overheated, nonsensical, and silly.
CAST & CREW
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Antonio Banderas, Peter Coyote
Directed by Brian De Palma
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SYNOPSIS
Director Brian De Palma returns to familiar terrain with FEMME FATALE, a loopy, sexy thriller that plays like a "greatest hits" of the controversial director's tics, tricks, and obsessions. more...
MPAA RATING
R, strong sexuality, violence, and language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 54 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Nov 6, 2002
Video: Mar 25, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Warner Bros.
GENRE
Action/Adventure, Action, Thriller, Film Noir, Paris, France, Revenge, Sex, Lesbians, Models
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Femme Fatale Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
TIDBITS
NEWS ARTICLES
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "...spellbinding fun and deliciously exploitative."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
 "At once half-baked and overheated."
-- Todd Anthony, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"Nearly surreal, dabbling in French, this is no simple movie, and you'll be taking a risk if you choose to see it. I enjoyed the ride (bumps and all), creamy depth, and ultimate theme."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"Though there are entertaining and audacious moments, the movie's wildly careening tone and an extremely flat lead performance do little to salvage this filmmaker's flailing reputation."
-- Rod Armstrong, REEL.COM
"...Brian De Palma is utterly mad: cinema mad, set-piece mad, style mad. It's a beautiful madness."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"Femme Fatale is not the director's best work ever, but it is as good as we've seen him be in much too long a time."
-- Marjorie Baumgarten, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"It's the best bad movie out there."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"It's full of cheesy dialogue, but great trashy fun that finally returns De Palma to his pulpy thrillers of the early '80s."
-- Jeffrey Bruner, DES MOINES REGISTER
"Feels like nothing quite so much as a middle-aged moviemaker's attempt to surround himself with beautiful, half-naked women."
-- Robert W. Butler, KANSAS CITY STAR
"Only about as sexy and dangerous as an actress in a role that reminds at every turn of Elizabeth Berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"an exercise in cinematic excess whose faults almost add to its charms"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"There’s not much to Fatale, outside of its stylish surprises... but that’s OK."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"What's so fun about this silly, outrageous, ingenious thriller is the director's talent. Watching a Brian DePalma movie is like watching an Alfred Hitchcock movie after drinking twelve beers."
-- Blake Davis, KFOR CHANNEL 4 NEWS
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"The film virtually chokes on its own self-consciousness."
-- Jeanne Aufmuth, PALO ALTO WEEKLY
"This is pure, exciting moviemaking. You won't exactly know what's happening but you'll be blissfully exhausted."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"A soap-opera quality twist in the last 20 minutes...almost puts the kibosh on what is otherwise a sumptuous work of B-movie imagination."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"An erotic thriller that's neither too erotic nor very thrilling, either."
-- Gary Brown, HOUSTON COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS
"Even accepting this in the right frame of mind can only provide it with so much leniency."
-- Matt Brunson, CREATIVE LOAFING
"The element of surprise might be the only thing Femme Fatale has going for it."
-- Bill Chambers, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"Femme Fatale offers nothing more than a bait-and-switch that is beyond playing fair with the audience. Are we dealing with dreams, visions or being told what actually happened as if it were the third ending of Clue?"
-- Erik Childress, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"This is SO De Palma. If you love him, you'll like it. If you don't...well, skip to another review."
-- Linda Cook, QUAD CITY TIMES (DAVENPORT, IA)
"Boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy, kinky fun."
-- Mike D'Angelo, TIME OUT NEW YORK
"If I could have looked into my future and saw how bad this movie was, I would go back and choose to skip it. Fortunately, you still have that option."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
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ROTTEN 45%
Avg. Rating: 5.7/10 |
"The rest of the plot is impossible to explain without blowing whatever tension there is, although it's more comedy than suspense De Palma creates."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"When [De Palma's] bad, he's really bad, and Femme Fatale ranks with the worst he has done."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"Great over-the-top moviemaking if you're in a slap-happy mood."
-- Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE
"The film has the high-buffed gloss and high-octane jolts you expect of De Palma, but what makes it transporting is that it's also one of the smartest, most pleasurable expressions of pure movie love to come from an American director in years."
-- Manohla Dargis, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"The director's many dodges and turns add up to little more than a screenful of gamesmanship that's low on both suspense and payoff."
-- Robert Denerstein, DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
"This is pure filmmaking, elegant and slippery."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"The story the movie tells is of Brian De Palma's addiction to the junk-calorie suspense tropes that have all but ruined his career."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Sexy and passably entertaining, with a plot that's too clever by half."
-- Edward Guthmann, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Inventive, fun, intoxicatingly sexy, violent, self-indulgent and maddening."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"Sustains its dreamlike glide through a succession of cheesy coincidences and voluptuous cheap effects, not the least of which is Rebecca Romijn-Stamos."
-- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
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"Wickedly funny, visually engrossing, never boring, this movie challenges us to think about the ways we consume pop culture."
-- Michael Dubois, MOVIELINE
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Femme Fatale" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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