The Art of Passion

"The Provocateur," or on my cable station "The Art of Passion," is not a very good Lifetime movie. The only thing that kept me going was that it was about art and started with a good song that I unfortunately could not find on youtube. I was able to find a few others including Sky, Sand & Sea by Alexandra Staseson and Yellow Daffodils by Malia feat. Eric Truffaz. Both of which are excellent. The movie, however, not so much.

There were several things wrong, first, the two stories the stalking and the supposedly steamy romance between the artist and the doctor--the plot jumps from one the other in a way that is jarring. They'll be talking about the stalking then the music will change to cue, the sultry part of the movie was back again. It was hard to invest in either plot.

I would not have minded that so much, but the lead actress played the role like she was a college student. Not a sophisticated emergency room physician.

At one point this was her dialog: "anyways what time is it at?" And she sounded this juvenile and unsophisticated throughout the movie. It almost seemed like an older man/younger woman movie, but he was only slightly older. Forties to her late 30s. Not a big enough age gap.

Now the artist was straight yummy! After a black tie event, they went to his place, and he changed into his artist's wear--unbuttoned shirt, casual trousers and picked up his sketch pad ...whew that was hot.

But it was all wasted tho. Thanks to his unconvincing love interest.

If you're going to create an erotic thriller perhaps cast an attractive lead? This woman would get to attention from me on my drunkest of days. Which is odd cause she looks perfectly normal in other images so perhaps the director is just terrible?

Could not be worse.. Kinda creepy movies and no one could make it worse.. Everyone is so freshman in filming, writing and directing.

One of movies you wish you never seen.

No wonder nobody famous has been involved in the movies.

I would think a high intellect female would not make careless mistakes as not changing security codes, etc.

If you are going to promote women empowerment, get better writers!

Which means it fails at selling the storyline of these two "lovers." Putting "passion" in the title, but not having it between the characters is just setting yourself up to fail. This is one of those movies that more seasoned Lifetime actors and actresses would have never taken.

The scene at the violin concert was so cringe that I stopped myself from laughing. It was supposed to be dramatic with the strings in the background, but it did not work. I really don't want to go through the plot, because I'm working on not doing that i my reviews, but you can give this a miss. It's one of the worst of the year.

There is no twist if you're expecting one. And I low key was. But it's all played straight and there are no surprises. Even the couple of jump scares (which get me in any movie) weren't great.

She's being harassed by a stranger, so she puts her safety in the hands of a stranger?? Mmkay. The soft core description that other contributors are giving is accurate, but unfortunately for this movie, they don't even qualify for those late night Showtime movies from the 90s. They lacked all chem and I'm just like, why is she so trusting of this total stranger? Maybe it's bad acting or bad direction (or both), but she's never believably vulnerable even though her life is being threatened. I get this new relationship is supposed to "reignite" something in her, but the lead actress is so one note and charisma-less that I can't bring myself to care. Also what does the A plot (her stalker) and the B plot (their "passion) have to do with each other lol? Either plotline could have been dropped and it wouldn't have substantially affected the movie at all.

Filler movie, terrible movie, give it a pass.

Another thing that irritated me about this movie is, people lose phones all the time. The fact that she didn't 1.get a new one or 2.call her phone company to turn it off etc etc just shows this movie is using very old plot points for this. It's simply not believable that she would not have had her phone bricked to help deal with what her stalker was doing. No, to her it made more sense to try to go to his house and retrieve it.