What’s It About
After a wild one-night stand, a successful sports agent watches his perfect life slowly disappear when he discovers the sexy and mysterious woman he risked everything for is a determined police detective who entangles him in her latest investigation. As he desperately tries to put the pieces together, he falls deeper into her trap, risking his family, his career, and even his life.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
It has been called the Black Fatal Attraction as if that was the first movie to show someone cheating in a marriage. While Fatale uses infidelity to jump-start the story, it is far from the only issue. Fatale is about Derrick, a faithful husband who doubts his wife, Tracie, fidelity. There’s his ex-con cousin, Tyrin, asking for money (again) for a new business venture and his L.A. talent agency business partner and best friend, Rafe. This was enough for a good story, but since there’s no such thing as too much in Hollywood, the cheating spouse element was added. The unfaithful part is all this film should have been about. Everything else was put there as unnecessary distractions. As for the cheating element of the movie, it was great. Derrick’s best friend convinces him to have a good time during their Las Vegas business trip. This is where Derrick meets Valerie. This is also the beginning of most of his troubles. As the film progresses, you find out more about Valerie, including her reasons for the affair. She is the first person you will accuse of everything that goes wrong in Derrick’s life, but Fatale uses various was to keep you guessing until the end. Once you do finally find out what the real story is, it turns out it is not as simple as he did it or she did it. The scariest part about finding out what really happened is knowing this could actually occur in real life and how easy it is to get caught up in something completely out of your control. This movie could have been a lot better, but it wastes time trying to milk as much time out of the story as possible, resulting in about thirty unneeded minutes. Sadly, within its nearly 2-hour playtime, it still feels like something is missing, all while showing a bunch of stuff no one cared about. Overall, Fatale does something many films have a hard time doing; it creates doubt. No one is innocent, yet everyone has an alibi. Fatale is worth watching at least once. Twice if you want to see what you missed the first time, in short, it’s a decent film, but much like those movies with the big twist at the end (The Sixth Sense, Gone Girl), you might talk about it for years to come, but you’ll never want to see it again.
OUR RATING – A MODERATE 5.5
MEDIA
- Genre – Thriller
- Street date
- Digital – January 7, 2021
- DVD/BluRay – March 2, 2021
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 2.39:1
- Sound – English: DTS-HD MA 5.1
- Subtitles – English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras
- Audio Commentary with Director-Producer Deon Taylor and Producer Roxanne Avent Taylor
- Making Fatale
- The Right Direction
- Cinematography: Finding the Killer Look
- Alternate Ending