Movie Reviews for Another 9 1/2 Weeks

Another 9 1/2 Weeks

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Movie Reviews of Another 9 1/2 Weeks

Movie Review: Would you please be over by the time I count to 50
Summary: 1 Stars

I could almost cry. I wasn't expecting Oscar-worthy performances but MY GOD this is the second worst movie I have ever seen. I am such a Mickey Rourke fan; I am nuts about him and he's so talented. He must have done this for the money; he brought NOTHING to the movie, and neither did anyone else. Gorgeous, playful, sexy, cocky John has been replaced by a man with razor-sharp cheek implants, platypus lips, and greasy black hair. The "old" John would have never sat on a park bench and blown his nose or shown his bony knees...blech. Maybe that is why we never ever ever saw him naked in the first movie. He acts almost effeminate in this one, and his clothes are stupid. There is not ONE redeeming thing here. Not in the plot...nowhere. Maybe just in seeing scenes of Paris...so pretty. I was at least hoping for some eye candy or hot sex. The sex is lame (we actually only SEE intercourse once) and Mickey looks like a freak show. I realize people age but damn him for deliberately destroying that face. And why has his VOICE gone down? I didn't realize grown men's voices get deeper...WTF? And it wasn't just all that. The movie just SUCKS. PLEASE, I beg you not to waste your time, no matter how curious. There are no 9 1/2 Weeks flashbacks. Just a few lines from it. But the Lea character keeps talking about "a whorehouse in Chicago in 1952" and John never even SAID that in the first movie. THIS MOVIE IS A TRAVESTY.

Movie Review: "you just don't get it"
Summary: 1 Stars

There is a point in the movie where John tells Lea "You just don't get it, do you?"

All I can say is that the screenwriter and director of the sequel just don't get it. The magic in the original 9 1/2 weeks was the power and control games - that is what made the sexual tension between John and Elizabeth so captivating. The sex scenes themselves weren't even all that explicit, but the foreplay and interaction was so intruiging that the viewer can imagine how hot the sex itself was. Even just Mickey Rourke's way of staring at Kim with that supreme self-confidence and knowing smile was enough to make the movie "en fuego" (on fire).

Another 9 1/2 weeks, by contrast, is full of gratuitous sex scenes with no real force behind them. John is jaded and has given up on his previous style of seduction. He no longer holds the sex appeal he had in the original movie - no confidence, no little smile. At the same time, Lea is just pathetic as she tries to egg him into playing his old games. The ending is a predictable and shameless rip-off of the original.

If you're looking for more in the style of the original 9 1/2 Weeks, I recommend you buy the book by Elizabeth McNeill. It is more violent and graphic, but extremely well written, and lets you dive into Elizabeth's mind as the power gap between she and John slowly widens and she abandons all control.

Movie Review: Not worth the plastic it was copied on.
Summary: 1 Stars

This is a God awful movie. Mickey Rourke tries but fails to recapture his galant image from the orginal 9 1/2 weeks but fails miserably. Poor Angie Everhart was either desperate for a movie role and sucumbed to the casting couch or truly was in a state of despair when she performed for this role. After viewing this DVD I threw it away, it was not a movie I wanted in my colection, it is just garbage.

Movie Review: Awful
Summary: 1 Stars

The first 5 minutes of this movie hold the theme that continues throughout. Stupidity. This is a laught-out-loud example of a movie trying to be 'artsy' and 'deep'. Perhaps this is a new genre, 'soft porn noir'. Dark, brooding with enough symbolism to kill a horse (if you have to ask what the many confusing, unrelated scenes mean; then you are just not artsy enough!).