Serial Mom (1994)

Written & Directed by: John Waters
Starring: Kathleen Turner & Matthew Lillard
Genre: Comedy / Thriller

Serial Mom is a movie about a deadly female. The events kick off with this normal church family who looks like they can do no wrong but the mom is a psycho. She kills people because they don't do things the way she thinks they should be done. For instance, she killed this teenage boy because he didn't wear his seat belt while he was driving and because he dumped her daughter.

Usually the femme fatale isn't a main character, like in the old film noir movies, but she is the protagonist in this one. The reason why this works so well is because no one would suspect that the nice mom next door would be a murderer, so it ends up being both suspenseful and funny, because you'd never expect it. She tricks people into thinking she's something she's not.

I would recommend this movie to someone who like gory and twisted movies. I would also suggest you see it if you like movies that both dark and funny, two things that typically don't go together, but work here. Also, if you just like strange movies that you really didn't think could exist, see Serial Mom.

Training Day (2001)

Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
Written by: David Ayer
Starring: Denzel Washington & Ethan Hawke
Genre: Crime

Two cops, Alonzo and Jake, meet up at a cafe and after they meet they leave in the car driving around town to begin work for the day. Jake is the rookie officer and Alonzo is the veteran. As Jake goes through training to become a policeman, he slowly realizes that Alonzo isn't quite the guy he should be.

In another Denzel Washington movie, Man on Fire, he plays Creasy, a body guard for a little girl named Pita who was kidnapped. The kidnapper wants his brother that Creasy had kidnapped in exchange for the little girl's life, but the kidnapper wants Creasy's life, so he agrees. In Training Day he plays the bad guy and in Man on Fire he plays the good guy, showing that he can do both.

Training Day is similar to many film noirs because it has a bad cop as the main character. I like these movies because most cops are good guys and want to help you. But in these movies they are doing illegal activity just like other people do, which shows that you can't always expect good guys to be good.

Basic Instinct (1992)

Director: Paul Verhoeven
Writer: Joe Eszterhas
Starring: Michael Douglas & Sharon Stone
Genre: Suspense

This movie is about a book writer that is framed for murders that are happening just like in her novels. Detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) falls in love with the book writer (Sharon Stone), and he is charged with the murder of a former rock star. As the police try to figure out who the real killer is, the tension between Curran and the author builds.

Basically this film is about a femme fatale: how a female in the book is (probably) killing people and framing it on someone else. It's crazy because why would she kill people like she does in her books when that would so obviously lead the police right to her? The character's psychologically messed up and you want to find out what she'll do next.

I think this movie is a good movie because the plot has a good twist to it and a lot of movies really don't have that like this movie does. My opinion is I think you should watch it because the characters make it seem almost too real, like it could happen in real life. Many parts are suspenseful and get you worried about Nick, the main character, throughout.

Mr. and Mrs. smith

*Plot Tease- The movie event Mr and Mrs. Smith (Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt) kicks off when Mr. and Mrs. Smith a bored married couple both working for rival assassin companies are hired to kill each other

*Cast/Crew backtrack- Angelina Jolie was in Lara Croft Tomb Raider where she played a video game character that comes to life who fights villians to recover powerfull ancient artifacts in both movies she was fighting and they both were action packed movies

*Opinion Focus- Angelina Jolie was a femme fatale in Mr. and Mrs. smith because the movie first began portraying her as a normal house wife but in accutuality she was an an assasin workin for a big assasin company.

*Final Thoughts- I would recommend this movie definitely i liked the plot of this movie because you wouldn't expect a

(Doug Liman, 2005) husband and wife to try to kill each other.