Today’s Prayer Focus
Femme Fatale
MPA Rating:
for strong sexuality, violence and language.
for strong sexuality, violence and language.
| Moral Rating: | Extremely Offensive |
| Moviemaking Quality: |
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| Primary Audience: | Adults |
| Genre: | Crime Mystery |
| Length: | 1 hr. 54 min. |
| Year of Release: | 2002 |
| USA Release: |
November 6, 2002 |
| Featuring |
Antonio Banderas Rebecca Romijn Peter Coyote Gregg Henry Rie Rasmussen |
| Director |
Brian De Palma |
| Producer |
Tarak Ben Ammar Marina Gefter See all » |
| Distributor |
 Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company |
Q & A
Nudity—Why are humans supposed to wear clothes?
Sexual lust outside of marriage—Why does God strongly warn us about it?
Purity—Should I save sex for marriage?
Is there a way to overcome excessive lust for sex?
What is sexual immorality?
How can I deal with temptations?
What are the CONSEQUENCES of sexual immorality? Answer
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FILM VIOLENCE—How does viewing violence in movies affect families? Answer
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Negative—The movie begins with immoral behavior between 2 women and got worse from there. Not only was the movie slow, but the plot seemed weak and boring. The heroine of this movie used sex, suicide, power, and money for her own gain. The movie offended my Christian values so much that I had to leave without seeing the end. No one should see this movie.
[Extremely Offensive / 1]
[Extremely Offensive / 1]
George Vasquez, age 48
Movie Critics
…disjointed and slow moving in many spots… strong foul language, graphic violence and many sexually immoral acts that pagan critics like to describe as erotic. This movie should have been rated NC-17…
Movieguide
…For the most part, Romijn-Stamos could store her wardrobe for this movie in a thimble. Femme Fatale is one long Victoria’s Secret ad, perhaps to keep our minds off the muddled, senseless plot…
Bill Muller, The Arizona Republic
…quite literally too dumb to be believed… By the end, the movie’s a mess…
Harper Barnes, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The film’s storyline is secondary to its style, that MUST be recognized to appreciate this film. But its style and its fondness for the film noir genre is positively bubbly.
Director Brian De Palma pulls out all the stops—split screens, dual realities, dream flashbacks, moving cameras, etc.--to patch together this gorgeous pastiche. It doesn’t hurt that the entire film is shot in beautiful French locations.
The content will obviously come as objectionable to the puritanical perspective (I happen to think this also contradicts the Christian perspective). There is flashy sexuality, violence and vulgarity aplenty, but this is a crime movie and an examination of the noir genre…
My Ratings: [4½]