40
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos is just plain HOT in this film and other than that...we got ourselves a stinker.
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What are critics saying?
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The New York Times by Dana Stevens
The story, to the extent that it is comprehensible, is pretentious and banal, closer to "Vanilla Sky" than "Notorious." But Mr. De Palma proves that, in the absence of insight or ideas, some amazing things are possible. It is possible, for instance, to be entranced by a movie without believing it for a second.
50
San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann
Sexy and passably entertaining, with a plot that's too clever by half.
63
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
Sexy, witty, energetic and gorgeous, but it is as stripped of the human element (in some of its production design, as well) as a minimalist Calvin Klein store.
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Liam Lacey
Even if it's accepted simply as glitter-sprayed trash, sophomorically plotted and incompetently acted, Femme Fatale is a uniquely De Palma kind of effluence, an exercise in auteur self-parody.
70
An extravagant suspense cocktail of wacky and lascivious ingredients that goes down fine.
38
New York Post by Megan Lehmann
De Palma fools around with split screens and slo-mo, but no amount of cinematic artifice can varnish over the fact that this is simply a bad film.
63
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
The film is De Palma's tribute to film noir, to Paris and to the cinema itself.
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker
It's hard to call it thrilling -- these aren't characters you actually care about and De Palma isn't as concerned with building tension as playing visual games -- but it sure sparkles.
63
Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea
Femme Fatale is glossy, glamorous cinema as collage. Maybe all the pieces of a truly good film noir are here, but the filmmaker has opted simply to toss them into the air and let them fall where they may.