THE LAST SEDUCTION **** of **** grade is A+
The Last Seduction is smart, sexy, dark, and funny. Every scene is briliant, a wonderful handling of film noir. This is also a film that offers up a delicious womans role, as a killer bitch, manipulating men to do dirty tasks in the name of "love." Linda Fiorentino plays the lady, every man dream and nightmare.
Fiorentino has her husband sell pharmaceutical cocaine, then she steals the money from him and heads to Chicago. She holds up in a small town outside of Buffalo caled Beston. There she meets a guy and goes home with him. When consulting her lawyer later she is told to stay put and find a job. She does and continues to see this guy who complains, "I feel like a sex toy" she responds "live it up."
Meanwhile her husband owes money to a loanshark that likes to break thumbs, and he hires a private eye tofind this broad. The plot twists and twists to a conclusion that is totally satisfying, and darkly funny.
I can't say enough about Fiorentino's performance which goes for broke and turns up a sly and brilliant performance that will make men cring and turned on. She deserved an academy award but was robbed on a technicality, the film premiered on cable (the distributer HAD NO BALLS) and thus she was robbed, and so was the film. This is one of the best films of the ninties, a great ride!
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