Say Nothing (2001)
Review by HTQ4
Film:
DVD:

Written by Madeline Sunshine
Directed by Allan Moyle
Starring William Baldwin, Natasha Kinski, and Hart Bochner

Features:

• Theatrical trailer
  
• Cast & Crew Bios
  
• Production Notes
  

Released by: Artisan
Rating: R
Region: 1
Anamorphic: N/A; appears in its original 1.33:1 format

My Advice: Skip it.

Grace Needham (Kinski) is married to Matt Needham (Bochner), but not very happily. It seems that he's become her own personal house-bum since he lost his job. So, she takes a little vacation from him to Miami where she has one night of unfaithfulness with Julian Grant (Baldwin). Well, she is put in a tight place when she gets home, because it turns out that the guy she was with down in Miami is the same guy who just hired her husband to his new job. Grant becomes obsessed with having her for his very own, so he does everything within his power to drive Grace and her husband further and further apart.

Well, this one tries really hard to be Fatal Attraction, but it falls way short. For starters, they do too good of a job of making Bochner out to be a complete and total loser/bum at the beginning. I mean, his gorgeous wife is standing next to him, dressed to the nines, ready for a night on the town, and he's on the couch in sweat pants telling her that he doesn't feel like going out. For the first part of the movie, he does absolutely nothing...literally. And Baldwin just doesn't seem to be able to pull off playing the bad guy. He's just flat-out unconvincing. Kinski also feels a little bit out of her depth here, too. She's beautiful, but she just seems like she's wearing someone else's skin the whole way through.

Since the movie is nothing to write home about, I guess you could say that this DVD is a fitting tribute. First of all, it's a fullscreen presentation--which, really, since it premiered on Cinemax, you can't smack it around too harshly for. Then, there's nothing but a trailer, cast and crew bios, and some production notes on the DVD in the way of special features. I would have thought that they might have gotten some of the cast members back in the studio to record a commentary track, but I guess they couldn't work it out. The cast bios are riddled with spelling errors--which is pretty damn unforgivable--and the production notes are just plain boring.

Don't even bother renting it. What more is there to say?