Clive Owen Movie:

		List Price: $12.95		Label: Weinstein Company, The Salesrank: 28160 Released: December 19, 2006
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		MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: HD DVD

Editorial Review:
A clandestine love affair may claim a terrible price from two desperate people in this intelligent thriller. Charles Schine (Clive Owen) is an advertising executive who is happily married to Deana (Melissa George) and has a young daughter. However, that begins to change when Charles meets Lucinda Harris (Jennifer Aniston) on a commuter train. Lucinda, who is also married with a daughter, keep bumping into Charles on the train, and they strike up a friendship that soon grows into something deeper. Eventually Charles and Lucinda fall into infidelity, but the consequences turn out to be greater than they imagined; Philippe Laroche (Vincent Cassel) is a dangerous criminal with a taste for violence who has learned about the affair. Laroche demands a substantial payment if he is to keep the word of Charles and Lucinda's relationship from their spouses, but they become convinced that Laroche is not to be trusted and that he may mean to do greater harm to their loved ones that simply telling them they've been unfaithful. Derailed was the first American project for Swedish filmmaker Mikael Hafstrom.

Description of Derailed (Unrated) [HD DVD]:
With a nasty villain and a plot twist that will take many viewers by surprise, Derailed is the kind of potboiler that's enjoyable in spite of its flaws. It's basically two-thirds of a good movie, with a convincing set-up and a barely plausible payoff that... well, you've just got to see it and decide for yourself. Like Fatal Attraction, it's a good-enough thriller that turns infidelity into every man's nightmare, beginning when Charles (Clive Owen), a well-to-do Chicago advertising director with a sickly, diabetic daughter and a slightly troubled marriage, has a chance encounter with Lucinda (Jennifer Aniston), a lovely and quick-witted financial advisor who's also stuck in a marital rut. Their chemistry is instant (between both characters and stars), but their eventual hotel tryst is interrupted by a mugger (French actor Vincent Cassel at his vile, despicable best) who's out to milk Charles for every dollar he's got. Of course, one phone call to the police would solve everyone's problems, but as he did with Collateral (albeit more convincingly), screenwriter Stuart Beattie turns up the tension with such manipulative skill that you're willing to skate past the plot holes and go along for the ride. With lively supporting performances by rappers Xzibit and RZA, Derailed marks a commercially slick American debut for Swedish director Mikael Håfström, whose 2003 thriller Evil was a Best Foreign Film Oscar®-nominee. --Jeff Shannon

Derailed (Unrated) [HD DVD] Reviews:
MIKAEL HAFSTRÖM, OPUS 4
2008-11-06 - *** 2005. Based on James Siegel's Derailed and directed by Mikael Håfström. Two married people, Owen and Aniston, meet in a train and plan to start an affair but they are attacked by Vincent Cassel in their hotel room. Later, Cassel blackmails Owen. Between Hitchcock and FATAL ATTRACTION, the film is agreeable and belongs to the Hollywood paranoia and guiltiness sub-gender. Note among many, the reference to Psycho (Special Edition) (Universal Legacy Series) when Owen tries to make an incriminating car disappear. Already forgotten.

If only for Clive Owen and Vincent Cassel
2008-10-03 - Okay, was this made before or after "Rumor Has It?" Jennifer Aniston continues to convince me that her acting is pedestrian. She [is] one of those actors who just don't work in the big screen. She may have been fine on televsion but....she wrecked this film. I was very glad that she (Lucinda Harris) got blown away in the big shootout; unfortunately, too late in the film. The big shootout was the highlight of the film.

Clive Owen as Charles Schine played his part very well. That being of the person victimized in a blackmail scheme by the sinister La Roche played by Vince Cassell and his convincingly scumbag accomplice Dexter, played by the one-dimensional Xzibit; whom I was also glad when he was blown away. I also enjoyed the final scene when La Roche gets it "stuck to him." After all the pain he put Schine and his family through. Yeah, even though it all because of Schine's attempted affair with Lucinda Harris.

Oh, the storyline? Please read one of the "long-winded reviews."


good but kind of stupid
2008-07-16 - The first obervation is that all of the blacks in this film were thugs, cons, ex-cons or related to an ex-con. This is pathetic. The film was made in 2005, but we are now living in a time when an African-American stands the best chance than ever of becoming the president.

Other than its portrayal of blacks, the film has a very simple plot and nothing comes as too much of a suprise. It has its moments but mostly on the level of a cheaply made TV police drama.

From the first scene on the train, it's easy to figure that Jennifer Anniston's character is up to something. The way she talks to the man on the train is indicative of a woman who is a practiced seductress. Then we wonder where she got her experience.

The robbery/rape scene seems strange from the beginning. My initial thoughts were: why is he doing that? What kind of criminal would do something so stupid?

Jennifer Anniston's character says somewhere in the film "we never appreciate or value what we have". I think this is basically what the gist of the film is all about. The main character in the film didn't appreciate what he had with his family, otherwise he would have never got tangled up in that mess which costed him so much more than just his bank account.

IT'S ONLY ME, BUT:
2008-06-01 - CLIVE OWEN IS MARRIED WITH A CHILD WHO NEEDS A TRANSPLANT REQUIRING BIG TIME MONEY. JENNIFER ANISTEN AND HE BOY FRIEND RUN A RING OF THUGS WHO SET UP MEN WITH MONEY TO FIRST GET THEM TO HOTEL RUMS WITH JEN, AND THEN BEAT THE HELL OUT OF THEM, ROB THEM, AND THEN WEEKS LATER COME BACK AND BLACKMAIL THEM. CLIVE WILL TURN THE SCEME BACK ON THEM. JM

Surprisingly Good
2008-05-15 - This is a good, solid movie, well above average. The plot twists are very entertaining, and I didn't see any of them coming. The video and sound on the DVD are very good. This is worth a purchase at around $5-6.