Fatal Affair Review (Contains Spoilers)

I haven’t done a movie review in awhile and Netflix’s Fatal Affair seemed like the perfect film to get me back in the groove.

When I saw the trailer, it seemed like the film was going for an erotic thriller vibe, but didn’t have the budget to fully execute that vision. But they had me at Nia Long and Omar Epps. I’m always going to support two Black legends.

The first scene of the movie is incredibly predictable and failed to create the desired suspense. We meet Ellie, Nia Long’s character, in her car, driving to the home she and her husband have just moved into. She’s on the phone and we learn she’s a lawyer when she says, “The opposing counsel said what?” Now, to you, this sentence may seem completely innocuous, but as an attorney myself, it sounded awkward to my ear. In real life, you’d likely say, “Opposing counsel said what?” or “She/he said what?” To me, the line sounds like someone trying to sound like he knows what he’s talking about when he doesn’t. There was nothing in the script the writers couldn’t have picked up from an episode of Suits. Actually, I’ve never seen Suits but I bet it’ll teach you more about the law than this movie. I wonder if the writers even consulted with an attorney on the script.

The clichés keep coming when Ellie tells David, Omar Epps’s character, over wine that after twenty years, one day she woke up and the person…