Friends and the F-word

For fans that are attracted to Jennifer Aniston I have to imagine that it was worth the price of admission to see "Derailed", if only just to hear her say "..I want you to "F" me" on film. For the rest of us it wasn't quite that thrilling.

Here's another movie where you can almost hear the pitch that got this movie made. A married man (Clive Owen) meets an attractive sophisticated woman on a train (Aniston), they both have disconnected marriages and a daughter, they meet again for a drink, they wind up in a hotel, they get started on their affair, a thief breaks in, he pistol whips the family man and rapes the attractive sophisticated woman. The rapist/burglar then blackmails the family man for $120,000 (in 3 installments). Sounds like a great idea but there are several flaws including the lead character having the investigative instincts of the Three Stooges.

Number one, why does the thief never blackmail the woman? Clive Owen's character should've realized that from the start. According to her speech on the train she was far more successful than he and had just as much to lose (her daughter). He never questions her even though he's known her for such a short time. You'd think he'd be a tad more paranoid. He felt guilty for not protecting her against the rapist but anyone with a brain would start asking questions. Also, no father on earth would use money saved for his daughters health care (his daughter would die without it) to bury a case of infidelity.

Lastly, these con artists are dumb. How dumb are they? Once they con the lead out of 120K, they get to work on the next victim...in the same town and use the same hotel. Huh?

As my wife said, "any movie I (she) can figure out in the first 10 minutes must suck". In the end Jenifer Aniston did "F me"....out of the 4.00 rental fee.