Final Analysis

It is one of those films that I never cared for back in the early 90s, but sifting thru the ex rentals for a pound at blockbuster I thought it was worth a purchase to revisit with older eyes. Well... Full review

It is one of those films that I never cared for back in the early 90s, but sifting thru the ex rentals for a pound at blockbuster I thought it was worth a purchase to revisit with older eyes. Well sadly... Full review

Richard Gere and Kim Basinger reunite from 1986's mediocre "No Mercy" for this outlandish, just-as-shallow would-be murder mystery. Occasionally enjoyable, fruity concoction concerns psychiatrist Gere becoming involved with two sexy sisters who are hoping to formulate the perfect murder plot.... Full review

Painfully slow for the first hour, "Final Analysis" is an 'old-fashioned' thriller that has little of the style that made those film noir flicks of the 40's and 50's so very enjoyable. This picture never manages to grab its audience until... Full review

This movie has some promising elements. There is a premeditated murder plot with some intricacy, twists, and atmosphere. Kim Basinger is good playing a beautiful mystery woman with a troubled past and an exotic, violent illness ("pathological intoxication"). She conveys... Full review

Some of the problems that I had with the movie had to do with location. I am very familiar with the location where the light house was supposed to be. It does not exist and never did, so that whole... Full review

The story behind this movie was good but once again Hollywood choose the wrong actors and it ruined an interesting premise/story. Kim Basinger is a horrible actress (Once again a shining example of how the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress is... Full review

The movie that has a most promising cast failed to carry on the main message of the plot - if there is no place for love in a woman's heart, all she is after is just money and creature comforts that... Full review

I just watched this movie again, after having seen it twice before in 1996-97. It hasn't held up particularly well. It steals a lot from Hitchcock (the "I had the dream again" key phrase from "Rebecca", the superficial psychoanalysis from... Full review

this movie was a little long. the acting was good,and so was the story.the movie lacked direction,the movie was too drawn out.... Full review

" Final Analysis," an implausible psycho thriller with Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman and Richard Gere, has so many twists, turns and backward leaps, the actors tackle their work like trained poodles in a circus act. All the makings for a six-sided love triangle are now in place and that's not counting the odd man out -- Barr's lawyer, a legal hot dog played with relish, ketchup and mustard by Paul Guilfoyle, who wastes no time taking this project seriously. ... Full Review

Only Gere, Thurman and defense attorney Paul Guilfoyle come off well. Basinger's an unintentional scream with her bad-blonde shtick. His performance, unbelievably self-indulgent and hammy, is menacing only to the funny bone. ... Full Review

But, given her history, Gere is confident she'll get off with an insanity plea, so he begins to choreograph her defense. They offer no twists that are not telegraphed ahead of time, the redundant dialogue and many dramatic pauses only serve to make the film sluggish, and there are times when the courtroom theatrics seem like a rejected "L.A. Law" script. ... Full Review

Final Analysis " is the kind of movie that's a lot more fun to look at than to think about. It is a sensational movie to look at, wildly in love with San Francisco, with a lot of the action centering on a (fictional) lighthouse below the Golden Gate Bridge. ... Full Review

If looks were everything, this one would have it all: Gere and Basinger as illicit lovers, Roberts as her gangster husband, Thurman as her sister and his patient and Dean Tavoularis as the production designer. ... Full Article