Paul Nevai I certainly agree with all the critical reviews. Nevertheless, I rated the movie much higher than the average for two simple but essential reasons: it was quite entertaining and definitely not boring.I never liked Kevin Spacey and he did his best to justify my attitude toward him. On the other hand, Kevin Kline is one of my all time favorite actors despite his mediocre performance here.P.S. I saw the movie when it first came out but I remembered only one single scene from it when I watched it the second time on 01/25/2018.

videorama-759-859391 You probably expect a sex thriller from the poster. If only if. It's title really doesn't make much sense in the midst of the story, you really have to be patient with. The way the movie ends in an action scenario is just plain stupid, out of whack. New neighbours Eddy (the always solid Spacey) and hot wife Miller who can really sing, befriend the more quieter Kline and wife, Mastrantonio, a work couple who are both in advertising as inferred in the opening scenes, with a little bit of a squabble too, for added measure. Their daughter is musically gifted and everything seems peachy creamy. One night the slightly shady Spacey throws Kline a proposition- exchanging wife's for the night. First thinking Spacey's crazy, he's enticed into the offer, which then his whole life becomes a nightmare, where he's framed for the grisly murder of Spacey's wife. Kline must clear himself, having a hell of a time doing so, where psycho con, Spacey, then moves in on Mastrantonio, playing the new daddy. Yeah, there are a couple of surprises, but really it's a weak thriller, wasted on a good cast in a movie where it's story works at a slow grind, you'll actually feel your teeth rubbing up against each other. I'll admit, my favourite scene in this flick, and I'm being serious here, is the opening jingle scene, only cause I like the jingle. In one heavy sense, the finale shootout scene comes as a blessing from all the slow moving b.s. we had to endure, prefore. A truly weak thriller, disappointing, considering this is from the same guy who made the much earlier Kline pic, Sophie's Choice. Make your choice at the DVD thriller section, choose not to watch this.

Jackson Booth-Millard From director Alan J. Pakula (All the President's Men, Sophie's Choice) this is an odd thriller film. Basically Richard Parker (Kevin Kline) and his wife Priscilla (Scarface and Robin Hood: Princes of Thieves' Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) have an ordinary life, and they meet new neighbours Eddy Otis (Kevin Spacey) and his wife Kay (Rebecca Miller). They seem to become friends quite quickly, and for some reason because Richard is looking at Kay quite a lot, Eddy seems to be okay about it, and knows he wants to have sex with her. He somehow manages to persuade Richard to get in bed with Kay and have sex, and not long after she is found murdered, Richard was set up for money. Richard is out on bail, and he wants to prove his innocence to detective David Duttonville (Forest Whitaker). Richard believes that Kay is still alive, and it all comes to a climax when Eddy, who I thought was creepy anyway, is trying to kill Richard. To be honest, it is a little random, and not the sort of film I had in mind, when it mentioned neighbours from hell, that's what I wanted, not this. Okay!

edwagreen The first part of the film really drags where a musical performer, Kevin Kline, leads an average life with wife and daughter. Along comes the new neighbors.Kevin Spacey is in fine form as the neighbor. At once, he shows himself to be an oddball. He becomes a little too friendly with Kline and Mary Elizabeth, and when they say they're not that rich, he fakes an accident so that they can get money. All this comes at a price, he wants to swap partners. I thought I was dealing with a picture about swinging but how wrong I was.The film really takes off when Spacey's wife is found dead and Kline, who had supposedly gone to bed with her, is the prime suspect in her murder.While the movie becomes a murder mystery, this exciting part could have been handled a lot better. It is soon determined that Spacey had a large insurance policy out on his wife, and more shockingly, the dead woman is not his wife, and furthermore, Spacey is now carrying on with Kline's wife. All this as you can imagine is a little too hard to take.The ending has that riveting feeling but you feel that you've gone way out of the way to get to this point.