High Infidelity Over view Director Writer Cast Air date Did you know that? Review The credits have a good rhythm and allow us to dive directly in the movie. expecting a suspense movie about blackmail. Characters are pretty much one-dimensional, with the exception of Linda (Charisma Carpenter) and Meredith (Krista Bridges). Charisma's performance is sensitive but lacks consistency because of the senseless editing. Kate Trotter's performance could have been interesting if it hasn't been over the top throughout the movie. Her acting is interesting but she repeats herself and shows only a one character layer. The primary subject of the movie, adultery is poorly treated, only from an idealistic women's point of view were men are passive. What struck me during the movie was the editing. Editing can make or break actor's performances, sadly in this case it's the later. Many scenes lacks introductions and the time you're asking where you are and why, it has jumped to the next scene. On many occasions you have the feeling that you have blinked too much and missed a part of the scene. Some other scenes comes truly out of the blue and vanish even more faster without more explanation nor sense. Even worse, a couple of scenes seem misplaced. A few rare shots were interesting though. They gave the audience information from another point of view. While Charisma discovers photo evidences of her behavior and burn them in the fireplace, the audience sees through the window that her garden is flooded with the same compromising pictures. In the same way, we hear the phone resound in her empty house when she's trying to contact her husband when we clearly see he's already gone. The final confrontation is badly written, with a succession of facts which could have worked with more time. It's hard to believe that a character asks to trust him and then tries to stab the other character and asks for trust again, and stabs, and again and again. The ending in not believable, and the killer is cliché in every way. A few good shots can't save this mediocre thriller from sinking, which could have been slightly better if the editing hadn't been so awkward. It's almost a chance that the final scene was put at the end of the movie.
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