Deon Taylor directs Hilary Swank, Michael Ealy and Mike Colter in this erotic thriller where a successful married man finds himself entangled in a cunning police detective’s latest investigation after hooking up with her in a ill advised one night stand.

Flat and lifeless. Wants to fit in all the twists in of a Channel 5 late night “boobies in the first 5 minutes” flick. Without the boobies. It is admirable that with Fatale and The Intruder, Deon Taylor seems hellbent of resurrecting the 90’s “XXX from Hell” sub genre for black audiences. But he ain’t very good at doing much with ‘em but tracing over with a thick soft pencil. His PG instincts, squeamishness around nudity, skewed morality and offensive wealth obsessions really deflate the balloon. And Michael Ealy is and always will be too bland to lead movies. There’s a better movie here that focuses more on Swank’s sociopathic cop.

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