Forever Mine (1999)

Very Cool!!!

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The acting in this movie is really good.

First off, gretchen mol is no raving beauty and certainly doesn't have a spectacular body to ogle and being married just makes this a score challenge for joseph finnes....his older brother ralph also fancy's himself as a charmer of females...the problem lies in getting by the violent husband who is also well connected...warnings by the wife to her suitor go unheeded...and in spite of her rebukes he is sure she wants him...c'mon, this schlock went out in the 60s...anything ray liotta is in usually spoils the watching for me since he always portrays sinister characters...the thought of him in bed with a naked alice eve made my skin crawl and still does

Forever Mine is a noir film that stars Joseph Fiennes, Gretchen Mol and Ray Liotta.It is about two stories about a young cabana boy working at an opulent beach hotel that falls in love with Ellen,the wife of business mogul.It was written and directed by Paul Schrader.This film happens to be a modern-day crime story. A horribly disfigured man named Manuel Esquema is called upon to help out Mark Brice, a former city councilman in a wealthy New York community. Brice has been accused of some serious financial irregularities, and Esquema is the sort of "fixer" who might be able to make his problems go away. Mark, however, doesn't recognize Esquema as the former Alan Ripley, who was working as a towel boy at the Florida resort where Mark and his wife Ella were honeymooning shortly after their marriage. Alan became obsessed with Ella the moment he saw her, and before long the two were engaged in a torrid affair. Ripley urged Ella to leave Mark for him, but she refused; Ripley followed them to New York, and when Ella eventually confessed her infidelity to Mark, he responded by shooting off half of Alan's face. Alan survives and builds a new sinister life for himself, but when Mark hires Esquema to help him, the former Alan's obsession with Ella blooms anew. The movie has definitely misused the its talented cast in Mol,Fiennes and Liotta.Also,the story is clichéd and predictable whose story does not come up with something original nor satisfying.Also,the characters involved lacked depth and emotion as they were bland all throughout the film.In the end,only the gratifying sex scene between Fiennes and Mol will keep the viewer into watching this film.

This is one of those features that played late at night on HBO, so I figured I would watch since I like Joseph Fiennes and Ray Liotta. I'd never have paid to see it, given the plot summary, but I was very impressed with this pot boiler of a love triangle. It is a definite case of style over substance, but the plot remains plausible enough for those who are true romantics and who feel that those truly destined for one another will go to great lengths to be together. I must admit that the facial scarring of a primary character should not have been enough to fool those close to him, but beyond that I had no problem with the assumed identity device. On a lighter note, I have to say that Gretchen Mol looks sensational here. How much so? I 'bat for the other team,' yet noticed that Ms. Mol's breasts looked exquisite in the tasteful semi-nude scenes. I can see why her character was pursued so authentically by Fiennes throughout the feature. If you liked the original 'Postman Always Rings Twice,' this is a good companion piece.

Everything in this movie is unbearably implausible, false, phony. How comes a woman doesn't recognize the man she loves, just 14 years after he's disappeared, and when it happens that much more than half his face looks exactly the same it was? What the hell did the main character do to become so rich and respected? After all, how many cabin boys have become that rich in real life? And, most of all, how comes a young woman like that stays 14 years with the man that has beaten her and, to her knowledge, killed the man of her life? Ridiculous. The screenwriter of Taxi Driver has made a film that is a very good candidate to the title of The Worst Movie Ever Made.