VividSimon Simply Perfect

BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Leofwine_draca A WOMAN FOR ALL MEN can best be described as a psychosexual drama in a slow-moving mould. It's essentially a love triangle between old-timer Keenan Wynn, his sinister new wife, and his son, played by '70s favourite Andrew Robinson. It soon transpires that the sexually-charged young woman has more than a few tricks up her sleeve, bedding all and sundry and eventually driving the men in her life to murder. Sadly, this plays out in a limited way, with an extremely slow-moving narrative and little in the way of interesting incident. For the first two thirds it feels like a typical skin flick, nothing more, and only really picks up towards the climax, but even then by not very much.

nammage I'm not usually into these type of films: love triangles, jealousy etc., mainly because each film is basically the same plot but I keep watching them hoping for something different. Is this film different? Yes. Yes, this film is different. Probably because you have a Sexploitation director behind it; and yes, this film has elements of Sexploitation but it's less that and more of a Drama; one that, if it didn't have so much nudity, you could watch it with your mom, unless you have a free-spirited mother who isn't prudish. It does have its flaws. While there are some A-listers in this, the acting is wooden, at times. And while I think some of the actors improvised with their lines, it didn't help in certain scenes. There's a mystery element to the film, and I'm not talking about the supposed murder but the introduction of the characters like Sarah (the housekeeper), Cynthia (the daughter), who's just creepy and a bit incestuous, in my opinion; and though the character of Paul barely breathes in this film, even he has a bit of a mystery to him. Are the mysteries hard to figure out? No.Some of the photography is lame. Like the 'dun dun dun' moments. You know: the freeze frame at the end of certain scenes. The haziness when a scene approaches a 'dun dun dun' moment. Even the paranoia scenes become pretty lame. The 'murder' scene isn't even murder, it was clearly self-defense. Adultery isn't a crime, even with your step-mother. The ultimate problem with that scene is: it seemed to imply or outright state "It was murder!" The father attacked his son, and then tried to shoot him with a pistol. The son fell to the floor and grabbed something nearby and stabbed his father with it, killing him. Self-defense. Yet the next scene Steve tells his step-mother "We're not guilty of anything. We've killed someone who's already dead." That last part eludes to the fact that Steve's father went missing earlier and was presumed dead. Also, "we" is nonsensical. Steve killed his father (in self-defense), it wasn't planned, at least not by Steve. Adultery isn't a crime in the US, it may be immoral but not a crime. The crime they both commited was getting rid of the body and making it appear as murder to anyone who doesn't know it was self-defense. Of course Karen (the step-mother) mentions this later but Steve's an idiot and thinks he knows what he's doing. Of course, to a point: the same could be said of Karen. If one thinks I gave too much away, you're mistaken. The true villain is revealed in the beginning and one is just waiting for s/he's grand entrance. You get it in the last two minutes of the film.The film, as a whole, is cliché, subplots hurried along, main characters (like Paul and Sarah) who are prominent in the beginning and disappear entirely in the last second act, and questions unanswered yet I still enjoyed it. That's something.

Uriah43 This movie begins with a beautiful woman by the name of "Karen" (Judith Brown) marrying an older man named "Walter McCoy" (Keenan Wynn) and subsequently driving home with him to meet his adult daughter "Cynthia" (Patty Bodeen) and his two sons, "Steve" (Andrew Robinson) and "Paul" (Peter Hooten). It then becomes known that Walter is a multi-millionaire who owns a construction company and is extremely selfish and over-bearing to everyone. Karen, as it turns out, was a high-class Las Vegas prostitute who never loved Walter and has married him only because he is rich. Needless to say, both Paul and Cynthia suspect that Karen is nothing but a golddigger and they now feel threatened by her influence with Walter and the probable impact on their inheritance. Steve, on the other hand, becomes attracted to Karen and discovers that Karen is equally attracted to him. They eventually have an affair which threatens everything. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a rather standard film-noir which was greatly enhanced by the presence of Judith Brown and some decent mystery toward the end. It isn't a great movie by any means but I didn't think it was necessarily that bad either and I have rated it accordingly. Average.

Scott LeBrun The title character is Karen (Judith Brown, "The Big Doll House"), a young lady from Vegas with a dubious past. She marries the cranky, domineering construction company magnate Walter McCoy (Keenan Wynn at his most amusingly irascible), which doesn't sit well with his young sons Steve ("Dirty Harry" villain Andrew Robinson) and Paul (Peter Hooten, "The Inglorious Bastards"). Not unjustly, they wonder if they'll now be shut out of his will. Things take an even seedier turn when sexpot Karen comes on to Steve, leading to various other complications, such as death and cover-ups.Written by producer Robert Blees ("Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?"), and directed by prolific 70s exploitation filmmaker Arthur Marks ("J.D.'s Revenge"), "A Woman for All Men" definitely owes a fair bit to classic film noir, but spices it up with a "modern", drive-in style approach. As such, it's not a great story, or even that well written, but it IS entertaining and watchable all the way through. It's very well shot by Robert Birchall and nicely scored by Luchi De Jesus ("Black Belt Jones"). There's a little bit of violence and a minimal dose of female skin. Blees tries to keep you on your toes throughout, as you figure out what's going on, and ends things with a twist.Really, the main reason to watch is for this impressive cast of familiar faces. Certainly, this is a more high profile cast than one might ordinarily see in this sort of thing. And that includes Alex Rocco as an investigating Missing Persons detective, and Don Porter ("White Line Fever") as the McCoy family lawyer. The female cast are all very attractive, including Lois Hall as family housekeeper Sarah, Patty Bodeen as the teen aged daughter Cynthia, Ginny Golden as Steves' gal Rodell, and Elaine Fulkerson as Pauls' girl Allison. Veteran character actor Tom Bower ("Die Hard 2") has a bit as a construction worker. Brown makes the most of her meaty role, but the movie just doesn't pop as much when Wynn's not around.Worth a look for 70s exploitation devotees.Six out of 10.