A woman married to a rich man finds out she has a bad prenuptial agreement with an even worse husband. Over drinks with a stranger, she fantasizes about doing her husband in to void the prenup. The stranger decides to turn this imagination into a reality much to the wife's surprise?
This movie is a sleazy, direct-to-video psycho-thriller, inexplicably playing theaters under Disney's auspices? Pretty Josie Potenza (Halle Berry) is unhappily married to a wealthy older man. A chance encounter with a homicidal nut (Peter Greene) turns her life upside down? He kills her husband and tries to blackmail her!! The police begin to suspect that she murdered her old man for his money? There is a silly last-minute twist that makes a mockery of everything that's gone before? This little thriller delivers the unpretentious goods, gussying them up with some rather nice, tough-minded touches. 3* (This movie is OK)
95 min, Thriller directed and written by Amy Holden Jones with Halle Berry, Christopher McDonald, Peter Greene, Clive Owen, Frankie Faison, Charles Hallahan, Allan Rich, Clea Lewis, Loyda Ramos, William Crossett, Eddie Francis, Lou DiMaggio, Alexandra Hedison, John Paragon, Marc Shelton.
Note: Imdb 5.2* out of 10* with 3,081 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 13% with 15 critic reviews 38% with 2500+ audience scores, Roger Ebert 2 1/2*, Amazon 4.5* out of 5* with 275 ratings,
Special Note: In what would have been her big break, Gwenyth Paltrow originally auditioned for the lead role Josie but that eventually went to Halle. Paltrow didn't get the part, because the director felt she wasn't convincing enough. Halle Berry admitted on The Late Late Show with James Corden in the Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts segment that she knew the movie wasn't going to be very good during its production. According to Cinematographer Haskell Wexler, after the test screening the ending was changed because "the bad guy at the end didn't die badly enough?" Originally Halle Berry shot the guy, one bang and he died. When the scene was done again, she shot him, kicked him, struck him with a hatchet so he fell back shattering a car windscreen before hitting the ground, then she stabbed him with a high heel! Maybe this ending would be considered "overkill?"
Mistakes: When Tony is being stalked by Cole, he stops at an ATM. We see Cole's truck pass Tony's empty car and there are no vehicles in the background. A few seconds later, we see the same shot of the empty car but now instead of being in front of Tony's car, Cole's truck is parked in a parking lot in the background of the shot. In the garage scene, Josie shoots Cole several times. In one shot, the pistol slide locks back indicating an empty magazine. In the next shot, she shoots him again while he is on the ground. When Josie and Cole are struggling in the tunnel at the park, Cole wrestles away Josie's revolver and fires it 3 times at some would-be rescuers. Josie gets away and runs to the end of the tunnel. Cole fires the gun at her another 7 times. A total of 10 shots from a revolver holding 6 bullets?
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