
Year: 2020
Rated NR
Rating: * 1/2 Stars
Cast: Nia Long, Omar Epps, Stephen Bishop
"Can't you see we were meant to be together". Gee, where have I heard that forlorn line before. Oh yeah, in every stalker thriller that has ever come out.
Anyway, a female attorney named Ellie Warren (played by Nia Long) ends up working with an old friend named David Hammond (played by the slightly impassive Omar Epps). Having not seen each other in about twenty years, David becomes obsessed with Ellie and plans on wrecking her marriage while killing a few people on the side. Heck, you know Davie boy is a bedeviled dude about ten minutes in. Predictable, rote, knockoff-ed, and Lifetime-like, I give you 2020's Fatal Affair.

Directed by a guy known for TV Christmas endeavors (Peter Sullivan), shot in and around Los Angeles (which I thought was initially San Francisco), and pushing the adage where the cops are almost never around, Fatal Affair is mechanically plot-driven and feigned in its approach. Aside from some scenic locales and some nice-looking personas, you feel like the actors are puppets to the by the numbers script and that keeps them from giving more disciplined performances.

Written by Jesse Burleson
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