Review of Faithful

Faithful (1996)
Is this a Comedy or are we supposed to be scared of Chazz Palminteri??
23 August 2000
Warning: Spoilers
Love Chazz, love Cher, tolerate O'Neal but this movie takes too many of my emotions & smacks 'em together. I don't like someone looking menacing waving a gun in someone's face & then making small-talk with her - SINCERE small-talk. Is this a comedy? Is it a serious movie? PLEASE PICK ONE!! Sometimes it seems too real. Sometimes it's light-hearted & funny. Sometimes the dialogue (& Cher sitting on that chair in her white sox & that stupid pink robe w/her legs wrapped around Palminteri) is too dirty & ruins what coulda been sweet. I also don't like the dangerous idea of 'loving' a man who comes into your home to murder you. That word "rape" needs to be replaced, too.

I watch it sometimes for the Chazz factor. But this shoulda been re-written. Perhaps with Chazz's character somehow meeting up w/Cher, taking an interest in her but never letting on that he's supposed to kill her. They fall in love & O'Neal gets put away. (Murdered or literally arrested - either one.)

Oh well - That's my take on being FAITHFUL.
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