Unfaithful A Movie Review	MPAA Rated - R It's 2:04 Long A Review by The Dude on the Right

Things seem rosy for Connie and Edward Sumner (Richard Gere). He’s the President of an armored car company, she’s the always-involved suburban mom, and things are well in suburbia. One afternoon Connie is in the city, the city being New York, and it’s a horrendously windy day. She’s getting tossed around like a trailer in a tornado and collides with Paul. Paul is suave, sporting the day-old beard, and after dusting himself off he offers Connie a band-aid up his apartment for her skinned knee. She takes him up on his offer, he gives her a book of poetry (he’s a book dealer), and she is grateful and leaves. Upon getting home she tells Edward of her encounter, he tells her she should send him a bottle of wine, a cheap bottle of wine, but instead of taking the easy solution and sending him the bottle of wine, Connie goes back into the city and pays young Paul a visit. She is now intrigued, he seduces her, and before we know it Connie and Paul are having sex anywhere they can.

Edward, meanwhile, is starting to wonder why Connie seems so distant, and he starts to get his suspicions about Connie’s extracurricular activities. Doing some investigative work and with the help of a friend, Edward gets his proof of Connie’s affair just as Connie realizes she is screwing up her life and sets to break things off with Paul. And in a twist of events Edward pays Paul a visit, things get a little messy, and now it’s a story of "Can Connie and Edward patch things up and get on with their lives?"

"Unfaithful" works on many levels, due in part to the perfect match of actor for character. Let’s start with Gere. I’m not a big fan of Richard Gere, maybe stemming from my jealousy of him when he got to take a bath with Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman," and maybe now for his getting to take a bath with Diane Lane, but for this role he is great as the good-looking, loving, why is she cheating on him husband. He’s got a good job, he’s a good dad, and still keeps some sparks in his marriage. Gere does a believable job in all of this, and you almost wonder what he did to deserve his wife’s betrayal. Next up Martinez. Simply put he is great as the mysterious ladies man, with his European accent and disheveled looks - the studly man most of us normal dudes can’t stand because we know our girlfriends are thinking dirty thoughts about him while we’re with her at the bar. But the best role had to be casting Diane Lane as Connie. She comes across as that perfect suburban mom, loving her family, yet not too old for us to not believe she might be intrigued by a mysterious man like Paul. She also, for no better terms, is beautiful, but not hot, and Lane does a great job of showing us she knows Connie is being bad, yet she can’t stop being bad. Oh yea, and she looks good naked.

If you’re thinking "Fatal Attraction" you’re sort of right, but this one doesn’t have any bunny stew. This one also lacks the psycho aspect, but actually comes across as a little more believable. You can believe Connie gets hooked into Paul, you can believe Edward’s desperation to rebuild his life, and although the ending got an "Oh, that sucked shit. Jesus Christ!" from the gray-haired lady sitting next to me, I understood it.

If you’re looking for a good movie filled with some quality violence, great drama, decent suspense, and Diane Lane showing that she’s still got a great body, go see "Unfaithful." If you’re looking for Gene Simmons playing a preacher in a movie where a teenager gets his dick broken, go see "The New Guy." It’s 4 stars out of 5 for "Unfaithful."

That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!