Although it's been only twelve years since this movie was shot it feels like much more. But I’m not sure it looked any better on its time. It seems ridiculous and surreal even for a Hollywood film. It feels like some mixture of an erotic dream of a frustrated nerdy girl and a cheap horror movie with a “surprising” twist just before the end.
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She married him without knowing anything other than having sex with him.... They never talk or discuss anything. They have awkwardness at the breakfast table. To find out anything about him she has to go snooping around. He doesn't seem to want to know anything about her that isn't in her pants.
The whole movie is just her snooping, because maybe he is not a good person.... But, what about her? She is clearly insane to marry a man who wants nothing more than just sex. And if that's all it is, why is she trying to dig deeper? She isn't afraid for her life or in danger, so she needs to just have the sex and enjoy her husband. The End.
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Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes star in the erotic psychological thriller Killing Me Softly. Based on a bestselling novel, a woman has a chance encounter with a mountain climber that leads to a passionate affair, but before long she starts to receive mysterious letters warning her that her lover is not the man that she thinks he is. Graham and Fiennes have no chemistry together, which is detrimental to the film. And the script does a rather poor job at developing the mystery and suspense; so much so that the twists and reveals have no impact. Still, there’s some intrigue to the story, and a few tense moments here and there. A poorly made film, Killing Me Softly is ineffectual and formulaic.