The Last Seduction II (1999)

User Rating:

4.4/10   

Director:

Terry Marcel

Writer:

Dave Cummings (writer)

Genre:

Thriller | Romance | Crime

Plot:

Femme fatal/con artist Bridget Gregory travels to Barcelona and targets another businessman to scam him of his money while a relentless private investigator tries to track her down.

Plot Keywords:

Female To Male Foot In Crotch | Independent Film

Cast

Joan Severance	...	Bridget Gregory
Con O'Neill	...	Troy Fenton
Beth Goddard	...	Murphy
Dean Williamson	...	Earl McLaughlin
Rocky Taylor	...	Gabriel
Joseph Pilato	...	Marvin Dishman (as Josef Pilato)
David Gilliam	...	Mr. Swale
Enrique Neant	...	Taxi Driver (as Quique Neant)
Tara Shaw	...	Hotel Manager
Phil Harris	...	Jimmy
Perry Benson	...	Samuel Burgess
Liz Daniels	...	Rosa
Fison Burgess	...	Cecila
Simon Fisher	...	Ramon
Helena Boobleswang	...	Ellie

MPAA:

Rated R for sexuality, sex-related dialogue and some violence.

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

New Zealand:R18 | USA:R | Canada:18A (Ontario)

Filming Locations:

Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

Movie Connections:

Follows The Last Seduction (1994)

Decent late night entertainment

"The Last Seduction 2" is by no means high-quality entertainment. It's one of those movies you catch on cable at around 2 A.M., watch it since there's nothing better on, and end up getting sucked in by it. I mean, the original film was good, but it wasn't like it was a masterpiece. So I don't feel the filmmakers were being blasphemous by making this cheap, direct-to-TV sequel (the original also started out direct-to-TV, but later was released in theaters). Joan Severance is certainly no Linda Fiorentino. She pretty much plays a one-dimensional stereotype of a film noir vixen. But her performance is passable and like Fiorentino, she's not too difficult on the eyes. There are those little flaws that you'd expect in a film of this nature. For example, there's one scene where the female bounty hunter goes to a travel agency, which is in New York, and the man at the desk is obviously a Brit trying badly to hide his accent. But those are the kinds of things you can simply laugh at, and it adds to the fun of the film. I could've done without the scene where the film's villain punches one of his pregnant employees in the face. If this were a film of substance, I would say that the scene was shown to add to the film's realism. But instead, it was just shown for the sake of shock value, as a cheap device to make the audience hate the villain. The plot itself is actually quite good, and it has some nice twists and turns. I found myself hooked in throughout most of the film. As long as you take it with a grain of salt, "The Last Seduction 2" is decent late night entertainment.