Chloe

Raekwon

I went to see this by accident today, Alice in Wonderland was sold out (luckily?) and nothing else showing really took my fancy then I saw that Liam Neeson was in this so thought what the hell.

In a nut shell it's about a paranoid wife, who suspects her husband is having an affair, so she hires a high-class call girl to tempt him into cheating so she can catch him in the act as it were. Without ruining any of the plot it doesn't exactly go to plan as the call girl, who is the title character Chloe, turns out to be abit of a fruitcake and the plot twists and the wife pretty much bites off more then she can chew.

Anyway, I'm not usually a lover of these sort of films but the upper middle class setting in beautiful Toronto (I soooooooooo want to go there! ) was a really nice back drop to this film but I have to admit I was absolutely mesmerised by Amanda Seyfried who plays Chloe. She is absolutely stunning and her eyes had me in a trance everytime she was on screen (only broken by her numerous boobs/ass shots ). The other cast; Julianne Moore was decent but not entirely convincing as the wife with 'issues' and Liam Neeson played a surprisingly by the numbers character, but then again his real life wife, Natasha Richardson, died during the shooting of this film so it was understandable. But overall it was believable enough even though the ending seemed extremely rushed and sudden which was a pity because it took away alot from this otherwise enjoyable film.

Btw I just Wikipedia'ed this film and read that it was a remake of a 2004 French film called Nathalie...

MavisDavis

You liked it? Seriously?
I saw it the other night for the same reason and deary me, what a load of rubbish.
Honestly: an embarrassingly bad script; a wholly unbelievable plot; unresolved parts of the story (why was the son so angsty and 'in therapy'?); and, I felt, poor performances from the cast. It left me wondering how desperate Moore and Neeson must have been to agree to play these roles.
I thought Chloe was laughably bad and each time I thought it couldn't get any worse, it managed to - truly heinous.

Tiddlers

I enjoyed Chloe despite the fact that it's kind of bland and a bit sluggish in the middle. The 'twist' was pretty good , the acting was fine too and it was quite stylish but I found it bit cold;something just didn't sit right with me! I wish we had found out why the son was in therapy; the way the parents spoke about it I really thought it was going to have some relevance to the plot. Possible the film was just too subtle.There was a lot of symbolic stuff in it I though, long hair being the obvious one, so maybe it depended a bit too much on what wasn't being said, if that makes any sense!

Nathalie's meant to be better.

Diairist

the French original usually is. Nikita - Gabriel Byrne even had to wear the same shirt as Tcheky Caryo

JP Liz V1

I didnt hear anything about this film until i seen the trailer for it

Moore and Neeson are always watchable imo but Amanda Seyfried as a femme fatale :rolleyes:

Delirium

Diairist wrote: »

the French original usually is. Nikita - Gabriel Byrne even had to wear the same shirt as Tcheky Caryo

That doesn't sound right, I haven't seen Nikita but I did see the remake with Bridget Fonda called the Assassin. And I have to say that the trailers for Chloe look nothing like it.