Uma Paixão Ardente

"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.

Excellent and well done. A huge effort was invested in the realization of this film. The producer and director tried their best to ruin this movie. The main actors made a superhuman effort to make their so-called acting as unconvincing and superficial as possible. 10 minutes of this movie seems like an eternity. What a relief when it was over! Kudos to the entire team - you managed to make a film that is impossible to forget. Guaranteed worst performance of the year.

I expected so much more from this movie. Was the plot about sex or the life of Hope being threatened? The sex scenes were totally ridiculous especially the shower scene. I would put that more in the category of pornography. For a girl who supposedly was supposed to be so conservative, she certainly didn't live up to that image. As for Victor Alfieri, his acting was mediocre and it seemed that his body exposure played a very important role. There was little chemistry between Hope and James especially during that horrible dance routine or whatever you want to call it. I think that Victor should be more selective in the movie roles that he chooses.

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.