If it wasn't for Roger Ebert, I would have missed it.
He gave it 4/4 rating in his review. And that's how I ended up watching this movie. He was the only film critic that I liked.
I wonder how many of you watched it because of his 4-star review?
Truth be known, Ebert would from time to time allow his penis to ghostwrite one of his reviews, and Femme Fatale is a prime example of the phenomenon. "My word! That film was certainly ... stimulating. I find myself compelled to give it a standing ovation!" (See also his three-star reviews of the Lara Croft movies.)
If Ebert had given this movie two stars, I probably never would have seen it. As it is, I treasure it as a (somewhat) guilty pleasure.
I saw this movie because, come on, it's De Palma! Really loved it, watched it many times.
It's amazing how this man is capable of making both amazing films and utter dreck, in fact there isn't much in between. Luckily this is one of the former, of which there are many many more.
"People get it wrong, but in today's world we don't live longer, we just die harder." -Bruce Willis
ebert was a fat useless piece of sh*t
shareEbert usually liked De Palma and understood his films very well. The only time where I thought Ebert was dead-wrong concerning De Palma was when he slammed The Untouchables and gave it a bad review.
But, for the most part, Ebert tended to champion De Palma; he even defended Redacted at a time when few other critics would.