The Boy Next Door
04/03/15 Filed in: Cinema
Today's film was The Boy Next Door with Jennifer Lopez playing Claire, a very desirable separated mum, who ill advisably has a one-night stand with, as the film title says, the boy next door, Noah.
You can't really blame her for falling for his erudite charm but we knew it was probably a bad idea, as she did immediately after it had happened. However, ending the 'relationship' proves for her to be a lot harder than starting it, and Noah the charmer turns out to be a psychopath. Noah first has to dampen down the spark of a reunion between Claire and her husband, by first turning Claire's son, whom he has befriended, against his father, and then against his mother. Meanwhile Noah had filmed their dalliance and was threatening her with revealing all. As you will have gathered, things aren't going well for Claire, and it gets worse, a lot worse.
You can't really blame her for falling for his erudite charm but we knew it was probably a bad idea, as she did immediately after it had happened. However, ending the 'relationship' proves for her to be a lot harder than starting it, and Noah the charmer turns out to be a psychopath. Noah first has to dampen down the spark of a reunion between Claire and her husband, by first turning Claire's son, whom he has befriended, against his father, and then against his mother. Meanwhile Noah had filmed their dalliance and was threatening her with revealing all. As you will have gathered, things aren't going well for Claire, and it gets worse, a lot worse.
This film has had very bad reviews, so it's probably good that I didn't look at them until after I'd seen it. You can on occasions miss a good film by relying on reviews. OK this isn't a masterpiece, but I enjoyed it. I always feel that there's perhaps a bit of a downer on actresses who come to films from a different career, witness Madonna's lack of success, even though her Evita was adored by many. J Lo probably suffers from the same critical sniffiness, although personally I've always found her acting perfectly acceptable. And she looks good - very good.
Oh, and I'm not quite sure what was meant by a "First Edition of the Iliad".
Oh, and I'm not quite sure what was meant by a "First Edition of the Iliad".