The Last Seduction [2015]

Bridget Gregory (Fiorentino) cons her husband out of a fortune and finds herself in a new job in Buffalo where things she learns are very different.When taking a trip down memory lane and looking at the great femme fatales Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction may pop up or Kim Basinger in L.A Confidential may flash by but has any actress ever stolen a film like Linda Fiorentino did in 1994? The star broke minds 14 years ago with a sophisticated sexy portrayal as Bridget Gregory, the woman with the deceptiveness of the devil and the image of a Goddess. She is the film, the main reason to watch and represents that onscreen magic that makes you want evil to triumph over good, like Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs or the Joker in The Dark Knight. Fiorentino is a marvel and the gem of an intricately woven drama.Opening with a drugs deal sequence and you have a crime thriller on your hands. This opening montage is interesting if somewhat bizarrely arranged and once Bridget takes off with the money we have a none stop thriller on our hands that never stops entertaining. What we see is a fast and flowing showcase of minds, the independent mindset of the stealing predator against the vulnerable and cocky victim that is Bill Pullman. You will always be routing for the perfect predator.Filled with living issues and pride, the Last Seduction brings out passion of lives and the deals to survive. More than a thriller, looking deeper and you have almost a personal sentimental viewing.The charisma of Gregory and her seductive traits almost make for an erotic thriller but the strong mindedness of real life and the thrill of the chase cement this 1994 picture into dramatic thriller territory.Always consistent and interesting, John Dahl's direction brings the story to the viewer in an entertaining and realistic way. There are minimal dull moments and no one, not even Gregory's talky love interest, can spoil the viewing.As charismatic as the narrative is and how dramatic Dahl makes the direction, there is one thing viewers will remember when that excellent ending finishes, Bridget Gregory9/10

I was a big fan of this movie when it came out in the nineties, and was thrilled to find it available in this edition. Linda Fiorentino is effectively the traditional Hollywood male lead in the movie, and it is great that the makers of this film managed to sneak it into the style it is without their movie bosses noticing until it was too late. Very early on the movie did well outside of the USA, and was especially popular in France.The two disc collector's edition gives you the original theatrical release on disc one, plus some bonus features. Disc two gives you the Director's Cut, with deleted scenes, audio commentary and the like. The only drawback to the Director's Cut, is that no post production work was done on the scenes that were re-inserted into the movie. It does add some additional texture to the timeline of the main character on her arrival in town, and sheds some light on further motive and plot which didn't make it into the theatrical release.I'm really glad someone put the effort in to make a proper collector's edition package in honour of this movie. Linda Fiorentino remains my favourite smokey seductress, and she makes a forceful and great villain to boot.

NOT SHOWN ON TV VERY OFTEN - GREAT FILM

An immensely enjoyable movie from the stable of late 'eighties, early 'nineties neo-noir classics. Made by the guy who directed Red Rock West, this has a diabolical villain played with relish by the ferociously sexy Linda Fiorentina who is bad all the way through to her bones. Men don't stand a chance and don't come out of this movie looking too smart either. There's a lot of table turning of the rules in this ingenious plot which engages end entertains in equal measure. Highly recommended.

Great film, Linda Fiorentino is a tour de force as Bridget. I remember all the fuss when it came out about the amoral female lead, the sex scenes etc. etc. - times have moved on and its nothing like as "shocking" now and can be appreciated for the pitch black comedy and the great performances. A highlight for me was the scene where naughty Bridget immobilizes the detective who's been set to watch her movements by playing the ideal homemaker.Also included is a director's cut and a short of "Fallen Angels" which I was very glad to have for my Bill Pullman collection as its not available anywhere else.

The film is superb, one of my all-time favourites, worthy of five stars, with a brilliant lead performance from Linda Fiorentino, however the Blu-ray could be better, the picture seems very grainy at times. Strangely, the DVD version of the film on the second disc looks sharper to me, however this is the extended version - a good idea in principle, but as it turns out the extra scenes are all basically rather poor video quality (with an on-screen timecode), and so are rather jarring, they'd be better just left as deleted scenes in a special features section rather than incorporated into the film. Unfortunately there is no option to play the film on the DVD without the extra scenes (not that I could find, anyway!).

I saw this at the cinema when it first came out. I’ve never seen it on TV since. It’s every bit as good as I remembered. Complicated plotting and you have to concentrate or you’ll be lost.

I can't fault the movie: an airtight, pitch black comedy noir with two wonderful performances at it heart from Linda Fiorentino and Peter Berg. I'm grateful the movie has had a good bluray release, and Network has included some welcome special features like a retrospective and commentaries plus an extended edition. What lets this release down is a transfer that has nice natural tones but a really noticeable grainy, compressed transfer, with the sky and shadows sizzling with pixels, banding and noise, plus some ugly edge enhancement here and there. The film deserves a more definitive treatment in terms of PQ, BUT the film itself is so good it manages to overcome it's slightly sub-par presentation here.