"In Love with My Partner's Wife" was built around the premise of two police detectives in love with the same woman. Frank Miller is the corrupt cop who treats Eve as a trophy wife. Frank's partner, Paul Ford, recognizes how special Eve is and forms a bond with her to expose her abusive husband.
Within the first ten minutes of the film, it was clear that this was a saga of good cop, bad cop. A lurid fantasy sequence five minutes into the film reveals that Eve is thinking suggestively about Paul. The scene implies that the film could have been titled more appropriately "In Love with My Husband's Partner."
There was not much psychological depth to the characters. Frank never won the love and admiration of his father that he so desperately craved. Embittered and humiliated, Frank takes everything out on his devoted wife. As miserable tokens of his "affection," he regularly gives her gifts of toy pandas after his all-too-frequent outbursts.
There were several good supporting characters including the shady Callahan, the perceptive Captain Anderson, and the feisty detective Andrea Billings who suspects something is off with Frank.
A shortcoming of the film was its sluggish pacing. There was a false ending when the police somehow failed to nab Frank at a train station. That faux pas allowed the film to drag on for an extended scene that occurred three months later. It was as if the filmmakers were struggling so hard to round out a 90-minute film that they required an extra narrative sequence as filler.
Within the first ten minutes of the film, it was clear that this was a saga of good cop, bad cop. A lurid fantasy sequence five minutes into the film reveals that Eve is thinking suggestively about Paul. The scene implies that the film could have been titled more appropriately "In Love with My Husband's Partner."
There was not much psychological depth to the characters. Frank never won the love and admiration of his father that he so desperately craved. Embittered and humiliated, Frank takes everything out on his devoted wife. As miserable tokens of his "affection," he regularly gives her gifts of toy pandas after his all-too-frequent outbursts.
There were several good supporting characters including the shady Callahan, the perceptive Captain Anderson, and the feisty detective Andrea Billings who suspects something is off with Frank.
A shortcoming of the film was its sluggish pacing. There was a false ending when the police somehow failed to nab Frank at a train station. That faux pas allowed the film to drag on for an extended scene that occurred three months later. It was as if the filmmakers were struggling so hard to round out a 90-minute film that they required an extra narrative sequence as filler.