Fatal Affair review – cheap Netflix thriller plays the same old tune

By Benjamin Lee

 

Nia Long and Omar Epps in Fatal Affair, a film that plays the Fatal Attraction formula with nothing new on the table. Photograph: Film PR handout

 

From the company that gave us Secret Obsession and Dangerous Lies comes another Lifetime movie-level “thriller” that pairs two picked-out-of-a-hat genre buzzwords together and comes up with something we’ve seen many, many times before.

 

The surprising success of the aforementioned Netflix originals has caused the streamer to frantically assemble more of the same: low-budget, low-risk TV movies that place vaguely recognisable actors in familiar situations.

 

With Fatal Affair, it’s the 90s stars Nia Long and Omar Epps replaying the endlessly regurgitated Fatal Attraction formula with absolutely nothing new brought to the table.

 

In fact, the writer-director Peter Sullivan (whose credits also include Secret Obsession and every micro-budgeted Christmas movie you’ve ever half-watched on Hallmark) and co-writer Rasheeda Garner have made so little effort to disguise just how rote their movie is that I could have sworn I’d seen it before and forgotten.

 

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/16/fatal-affair-netflix-thriller-nia-long

Watching the promo was enough for me to decide that I would not bother.

6 hours ago, DoctorG said:

Watching the promo was enough for me to decide that I would not bother.

Thanks, that's probably enough for me. (your post I mean).