The right temptation

Year of release : 2000

Run time : 1h32m

Genre : Thriller / Mystery

Cast : Rebecca DeMornay, Kiefer Sutherland, Dana Delany

Former police officer, Derian McCall, is working as a private investigator.

One day Anthea Smith walks into the private investigative firm asking them to find out if her husband is having an affair. She asks for a woman to work the case.

Derian takes the case but she doesn’t find anything on him, he is not cheating with anyone.

Anathea is not pleased with the news, and asks her to entrap him, to see if he will fall for her.

Derian follows Anathea’s husband, Michael, to his racket ball club. There, she pretends to bump into him, and to have been stood up or forgotten about the date with her friend who was supposed to play with her.

Michael leaves but comes right back, and plays with her. He loses his watch, when he leaves, and Derian gets it and gives it back to him, by going to his office.

 

Derian is also trying to forget her last job as an undercover cop, when she fell for the guy they were investigating, and her colleagues k1lled him.

Derian goes out with Michael, he takes her home, stopping to fight crime (to impress her), and after he leaves her by the front door, he comes up to her place, and they do the nasty.

Derian wants to call it quits, after she tells the wife he cheated with her, but Michael doesn’t want to end the affair with her, and Anathea is telling her now that she wants him followed because he does shady business deals with people and she worries, because he even hit her, thing Derian doesn’t buy.

Asking her friends in the police force about him, they tell her he does have shady friends and he is believed to be involved in money laundry.

The movie wasn’t bad, it has a twist at the end worth “all the money”. I think that with the right score it would have been even better.

As we see Derian investigating Michael, we also see her past, working as an undercover cop. In the past they gave her a bad wig. I didn’t care about the past.

The actors were good. I really liked Dana Delany as this shady, rich woman, who seems to be saying one thing but meaning another. When the movie started I thought she wanted out of a marriage which had a prenup involving not cheating, with cheating involved getting more money, and I thought that was her game.

I didn’t like the soundtrack as I felt it didn’t match most of whatever was on screen.

The movie is labelled erotic thriller, but I assure you it’s not. There’s only one s3x scene in it, and the actors are covered up.

You can watch the full movie on platforms like YouTube (but it’s cut shorter), or Ok.Ru, where you can also find it dubbed in Russian.

Rating : Could have been a contender !