Some Other Woman

Tom Felton AKA Melfold from Harry Potter just didn't convince me. He came off more feminine than the two women who played the part of the wives. So I just couldn't get into this from the jump.

And his British squeaky accent was like fingernails across a blackboard irritating. So chalk this up top the casting director.

The dialog was campy and lame and did more harm then good, so was just another chink in the armor. I don't think I lasted to the halfway point before ditching this and moving on to something less juvenile in it's ability to provide quality entertainment. Like watching the Flintstones or the Jetsons.

A more then generous 2 out of 1,000 and a hard miss this monstrosity at all cost.

Edgy, provocative and intriguing, Some Other Woman tells the story of Eve, living in the Caymans with her husband, Peter, deeply dissatisfied with her life as she begins to experience a nervous breakdown of sorts, as another woman, Renata, takes her place. Or are the two women two sides of the same personality? There is a tale told early in the film of a woman who fell off a boat but was never found. A parable for Eve's undiscovered potential? Is Eve dead? The viewer never finds out, as many potential explanations are raised, but none are fully developed. Like a sophomoric literary story with no true form or clarity, Some Other Woman is beautifully told and well acted, but ultimately fails to deliver.

I don't mind thrillers that do build up and make you think(aka psychological thrillers) but this was bad. There basically 2 parallel stories in this movie told from the perspective of 2 women with the same exact friends and married to the same guy but something just seems off.

Sounds like a decent enough premise right? You could go anywhere here and pull the rug out from under the audience and dun dun dun, one of them is the "real" woman and the other is an imposter who is deluded into thinking the fantasy in her head is the truth. Right there, that already sounds miles better than what happened here!

Instead they show the 2 women's perspectives, drop subtle red herrings, a cat fight ensues and an ambiguous ending closes it out. We don't know if both women were somehow living out their fantasies with the same guy as their husband and the same friends and the desire to have a child of their own but this just wasn't executed well at all. Fine, neither is the real Slim Shady so to speak, but give us more to the ending...

What seems like happened is that someone or multiple people wrote 2 different stories halfway and mashed them up into this mess and tacked on an ending that they can say is thought provoking. Nope, not this time. All we got here is 2 incomplete stories that were half told that turned into a movie that looks like it ran out of ideas and money.

If this wasn't a thriller, I would've walked out halfway but I wanted to see how it all played out. This was a very limp thriller that wanted to be clever but just didn't execute properly. Save your time and money.

Knowing it was a thriller I kept watching until the end, hoping for some explanation to the madness on my screen but nothing happened. Actually, it was really like everything that happened to the characters on the screen unhappened. Some elements are thrown at us like the island legend and some of the autochthones presence at keypoints but nothing tangible and so the audience is completely lost. I did like the beginning though, the fact that we did not know who to trust -the answer to that question ended up being no one. The actors did their job really well, the only fault I find is in the writing really. The whole plot seems unfinished.

If one is the minimum number of stars, I'll give an extra star for the women, who did the best with what they could. Amanda Crew and Ashley Green, I see you. Blink if you need help.

This Harry Potter dude can't act his way out of a paper bag let alone gaslight these two beautiful women. It feels like an assignment, and therefore I give it an F+