At its delirious worst, it's as pungent a Parisian cheese shop, offering a cornucopia of laughable scenes.
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01/08/08
Fascination (2005)
4 %
Reviews Counted: 25 Fresh: 1 Rotten:24 Average Rating: 2.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Synopsis: A thriller riddled with paranoia and distrust, Klaus Menzel's FASCINATION is an acute study of a man stretched to breaking point by an egregious set of circumstances. Scott Doherty (Adam Garcia) is both stricken and confused when his mother, Maureen (Jacqueline Bisset), announces the... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Adam Garcia, Jacqueline Bisset, Alice Evans, Stuart Wilson, James Naughton
Reviews
The only magnetism generated by ersatz black-widow Fascination is that perilous urge to slow down and peek at the roadside wreck.
05/17/06
Top Critic
...Fascination generally vacillates between being utterly ridiculous and flat-out boring.
07/03/05
The presence of Jacqueline Bisset is the only reason the little man hasn't left the chair.
06/01/05
Fascination would be a good title for a movie that was in any way interesting.
02/15/05
Lust. Betrayal. Revenge. Greed. Murder. Somehow, all of these things become dull in the preposterous and yet decidedly un-fascinating "Fascination."
02/06/05
It's a film that fully lives up to its title, because you'll leave the theater fascinated that Fascination ever made it to the big screen.
02/04/05
Klaus Menzel's laughable screenplay is not enhanced by direction not much more accomplished than that of a typical Cinemax late-night adult series.
02/03/05
Top Critic
So tedious is Fascination that the plot, the embittered characters and, yes, the sexuality are merely insipid.
02/03/05
Blood! Hooters! Really improbable, out-of-left-field plot developments! You could do a lot worse.
02/03/05
Top Critic
If you're in the mood for some unscripted belly laughs or a catnap, Fascination should do the trick.
02/02/05
Jacqueline Bisset looks lovely at 60, and that's the best thing about Klaus Menzel's laughably bad thriller.
02/01/05
Top Critic
The balance of the film is so nonsensical that not even sex can sell it.
01/30/05
Fascination should make a bee line to Cinemax's late night lineup, where it belongs
01/29/05
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