Video Review

The Last Seduction II (1998)

EW's GRADE
F

Details Movie Rated: R; Genres: Erotic, Mystery and Thriller; With: Con O'Neill and Joan Severance; Distributor: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

So it turns out that the 1994 Linda Fiorentino-Peter Berg thriller was actually the second-to-last seduction. The straight to-video sequel, The Last Seduction II finds Bridget Gregory — now played by Joan Severance on auto-smolder — hiding from justice in Barcelona and scamming a sleazy phone-sex entrepreneur (Con O'Neill); subtract the first-rate performances, wily plotting, and malicious energy from director John Dahl's gritty original, and you've still got something a whole lot more engaging than this rote melange of soft-core sex and gratuitous bitchiness. Please, no further seductions, okay? F

Originally posted Dec 04, 1998 Published in issue #461 Dec 04, 1998 Order article reprints

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