Ellie (Nia Long) tries to mend her marriage with her husband Marcus (Stephen Bishop) after a brief encounter with an old friend, David (Omar Epps), only to find that David is more dangerous and unstable than she'd realized. FATAL AFFAIR is directed by Peter Sullivan.... (Full plot summary below)
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Ellie (Nia Long) tries to mend her marriage with her husband Marcus (Stephen Bishop) after a brief encounter with an old friend, David (Omar Epps), only to find that David is more dangerous and unstable than she'd realized. FATAL AFFAIR is directed by Peter Sullivan.
Leave your thoughts about Fatal Affair.
| The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe result is a passably entertaining diversion, glossy and decently acted but devoid of any kind of edge. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleIn any case, Fatal Affair is one of those lucky efforts in which everything good about it is good and everything bad about it is fun. The cheesiness is part of the experience. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperTo call this a Netflix Original movie is only half-correct. True, it’s on Netflix, but no, there’s nothing original about this uninspired knockoff of “Fatal Attraction” (even the title and the poster borrow from that 1987 classic of the genre), which is marred by stilted dialogue, predictable plot turns and surprisingly halfhearted performances from a talented cast that acts as if they know this is slick garbage and they’re just trying to make it through the shoot so they can call their respective agents and say, “We need to talk.” |
| VarietyLisa KennedyUltimately, this movie isn’t “Us,” or any other shrewd riff on contemporary culture. You won’t make a fatal — or even near-fatal — error if you stream it. Sometimes a second-rate thriller is just a second-rate thriller. |
| RogerEbert.comNick AllenTheir game of cat-and-mouse is not meant to be original in the slightest, but there's no good reason for it to be this dull. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsEverything happens quickly in Fatal Affair, since it’s all plot and no character. These movies are what they are: disposable; full of shiny, unstained, high-end kitchen countertops. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzFatal Affair will live up to the first half of its name, and you’ll be bored to death. |
| IndieWireKate ErblandToo chaste to be a “Fatal Attraction” ripoff and far too dull to approach the hammy charms of “Obsessed,” the greatest assets of Peter Sullivan’s Fatal Affair are stars Nia Long and Omar Epps. They keep this from looking and feeling like a limp Lifetime movie knockoff. |
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThere is so much recycled material in “Fatal Affair” that its carbon footprint must have been zero. |
| The GuardianBenjamin LeeThere are no left turns or bumps along the way, just a smooth straightforward journey from cliche to cliche, boredom setting in fast. |
