Eloise Marie Valadez
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Although a pandemic has struck the world, director Deon Taylor hasn t stopped working in one way or another. I ve been active in terms of getting things done during this time. The first couple of months, I stopped working. But I thought, I ve got to figure out how to work, Taylor said during a recent telephone interview.
He said he s been doing well and added as good as you can be at this time, and staying safe.
Taylor, who grew up in Gary, just had his latest film released Friday by Lionsgate. The movie Fatale, which was supposed to be released in the summer, stars Hilary Swank, Michael Ealy, Mike Colter, Danny Pino and Tyrin Turner.
Not so fatal attraction.
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12/18/2020
Hilary Swank and Michael Ealy star in Deon Taylor s thriller about a married man whose life unravels after he has a one-night stand with the wrong woman.
There should be a limit to the number of plot twists a film can spring on an audience. Sure, it s okay for fiendishly clever puzzlers like
Sleuth and
Deathtrap to keep us guessing from one moment to the next. But run-of-the-mill suspensers such as
Fatale which wears its film noir and 80s-era thriller influences so heavily on its sleeve that you can feel the seams fraying really need to keep them to a minimum, otherwise they lose all credibility. Such is the case with this effort directed by Deon Taylor and starring Hilary Swank as the titular femme fatale.
A suspense thriller is nothing without surprises, and the slickly packaged new release
Fatale comes with a twist so mind boggling that no one could have ever predicted it:
Gerard Butler‘s rehash of
Armageddon isn’t the worst major movie coming out this week.
In
Michael Ealy,
Jacob’s Ladder, Westworld), watches his perfect life slowly disappear after a one night stand with a mysterious stranger (
Hilary Swank): His house is broken into, Police Detective Valerie Quinlan shows up at the house, and she turns out to be the very same woman. Derrick is terrified that she’s going to tell his wife, but she assures him that he has nothing to worry about what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. But it becomes more and more clear that his problems have just begun.