Screenwriters everywhere should rejoice! The movie Chloe is the perfect example of how great acting cannot save a terrible script - thus proving how important a good writer really is. Chloe is a despicable little movie that I didn't see in theaters and shouldn't have seen upon it's recent DVD release - and I blame Erin Wilson, the screenwriter. A loving wife (Julianne Moore - who I still think is tremendous) plans a surprise party for her workaholic husband (Liam Neeson), but he misses his flight home - thus missing the party and embarrassing the wife. She suspects that he missed the flight because he was engaging in an affair, but since she cannot prove it, she hires a young, stunning escort (Amanda Seyfried) to try and lead him into temptation and then report back. It's entrapment in it's ugliest, and nobody (by nobody I mean us the viewers) needs or cares to be a part of it.
The movie takes an unoriginal bizarre turn which makes it all the more formulaic, and the "twist" ending is about as surprising as the outcome of the ship in Titanic. This movie never decided what it wanted to be - it flirted with thriller, romance, horror, drama, and pornography, but never committed to one genre thus never developing. It's never believable, and never satisfying.
I really hated this movie - but like I said at the beginning - the acting is top-notch. Maybe this movie looked a lot better on paper, but it's certainly not worth watching. From a content perspective, there is also quite a bit of nudity - including a graphic woman-on-woman sex scene. The screenwriter was going for cheap shocks and in the process sacrificed plot and intelligence. I would give Chloe a 3 out of 10.
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