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Final Analysis (1992)
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Movie Review by AJ 
July 29th, 2006
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Final Analysis is a hard movie to peg. At first, it seems like an interesting psychological character study, then it turns almost into erotica, then into the most kind of mundane and melodramatic Lifetime fare...before settling on being a pseudo-complex thriller. I was struggling to find the movie's tone, then it hit me: Faux Hitchcock. Unfortunately, director Phil Joanou lacks the Hitchcockian flair to pull off the delicate balancing act required for the film to seamlessly walk the tightrope between genres and moods. Instead, we wind up with a hodgepodge of different themes and ideas almost as schizophrenic as its two femme fatales, one played blandly by Kim Basinger, and the other meticulously detailed by the criminally underused Uma Thurman. Stuck in the kind of role Hitchcock would've reserved for James Stewart, Richard Gere tries to grasp at the straws of depth the screenplay hands him, but ultimately ends up floundering. Final Analysis has some interesting ideas, but overall I'd diagnose it with a case of paranoid schizophrenia.
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