Does every male in this movie have an IQ below 50?
Because that's the way it seemed to me, having just seen this. Not since watching "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" have the limits of credibility been stretched to such an extent, and at least that one was a comedy.
Basically, the lead (Fiorentino) is some kind of genius-level criminal mastermind, while every male character she interacts with is a complete and utter moron. Starting from her own husband (convinced by her to go into the drug business, she ruins his career and finances, and at the end he actually wants to get back with her?) Then there's the black detective, who risks his job and his pay doing something incredibly stupid and inappropriate, why? Because she taunted him into it? These are supposed to be mature, free-thinking adults? Give me a break. The other 'detective' hired to watch her from the street isn't much better; his intelligence level and overall demeanor would be a much better fit on a gentle ruminant than a human being.
But the crowning glory of oblivious, slack-jawed boobery has to be that mouth-breathing country boy she calls a boyfriend. He is so pathetically naive and needy that he follows her around like a lost puppy, who will keep trotting alongside you whining plainitively even after you've kicked it. He has no backbone, no self-control and no ability to think about his situation or the long-term consequences of his actions. He is so terminally stupid that I'm surprised he didn't die halfway through the movie from forgetting to breathe.
I know that this is how the characters were designed, but come on, give me a break. There is only so much suspension of disbelief I can take, and Bridget Gregory's story about her antics together with the nearly unimaginable stupidity and gullibility of everyone around her not only crosses that line, it polevaults over it.
I am so tired of male characters in movies and TV shows being portrayed as nothing but gullible, needy, sex-starved idiots who'll do anything a woman asks, and all women being smart, sassy and able to manipulate men any way they want.
It's too bad, because otherwise I rather enjoyed the actors' performances.