Quartile rating: 7.5/10 · 1 rating
A devious femme fatale steals her husband’s drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.
The Last Seduction is elevated almost entirely by Linda Fiorentino's ferociously magnetic performance as Bridget Gregory, one of cinema's most ruthlessly calculating femme fatales. Her work is genuinely exceptional — cold, witty, and utterly committed — earning a well-above-average acting score. The plot is a sharp, satisfying neo-noir thriller but ultimately follows familiar genre beats: scheming woman, naive mark, inevitable double-cross. It executes them well but doesn't reinvent them. Cinematography is competent and atmospheric without being visually distinctive. Novelty gets a slight boost for the sheer audacity and specificity of Fiorentino's character conception — Bridget is a more aggressively predatory femme fatale than most — but the surrounding film is largely conventional erotic thriller territory. The ending is clever and satisfying but not especially surprising to genre-savvy viewers.