Adrian Lyne directs Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas and Tracy Letts in this high end erotic mystery where a wayward wife drives her rich husband to extreme measures.

A strange fish of a movie. Affleck and de Armas both look hot in grey, but because he’s the cuckold and she is given some plausible deniability in the edit, there‘s very little sex. C’mon Lyne, 20 years off and only one shot of Daredevil rimming a Bond girl… very poor. This is wealth porn, the community they live in is eerily strange. Suburban hedonism, every party feels like a daytime swingers event that forgot the viagra. Real Don’t Worry Darling vibes. When threats, stalking, deaths by misadventure happen it feels quite humdrum. Almost as if Ben Affleck’s poker faced husband has nothing better to do with his day than stonily live up to some fatal gossip. He does love his snails… weird. An update on a Patricia Highsmith novel, this plays its cards close to its chest for a beat too long to have any real fun. As a one watcher, it looks a billion bucks and guessing the psychological motivations of the blank characters is a decent motor but once the cat is out of the bag… well… there is very little that would entertain on a second watch.

5

Perfect Double Bill: Knock Knock (2015)

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