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"&lt;p&gt;It takes guts for Richard Gere and Kim Basinger to reunite for this opulently produced thriller. Maybe they figure audiences will forget their 1986 cop-and-babe-on-the-bayou debacle &lt;em&gt;No Mercy.&lt;/em&gt; Not bloody likely, especially since they fare even worse in this shrink-and-babe-on-the-Golden Gate stinkeroo. It&amp;apos;s not that the two stars don&amp;apos;t look terrific. Playing San Francisco psychiatrist Isaac Barr, Gere does wonders for his Giorgio Armani wardrobe. And as Heather Evans &amp;#x2013; the sister of Dr. Bait&amp;apos;s sexually neurotic patient Diana Baylor (Uma Thurman) &amp;#x2013; Basinger slips in and out of her swank costumes with the skill of a runway model. It&amp;apos;s a pity the same care wasn&amp;apos;t lavished on their performances. Both actors have been impressive before &amp;#x2013; Gere as recently as&lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/internal-affairs-20040924\"&gt; &lt;em&gt;Internal Affairs&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and Basinger further back in &lt;em&gt;Nadine&lt;/em&gt; &amp;#x2013; but together they generate the heat of a fashion layout. Emotions slide off of them. When Basinger makes her back-lit entrance, all you see is her hair, a splendiferous blond special effect that receives the awed attention of the mother ship&amp;apos;s landing in Spielberg&amp;apos;s &lt;em&gt;Close Encounters.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;The film also represents a low point for writer Wesley Strick (&lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/cape-fear-19911113\"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cape Fear&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) and director Phil Joanou (&lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/state-of-grace-19900914\"&gt;&lt;em&gt;State of Grace&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), whose previous work has been marked by fierce intelligence. &lt;em&gt;Final Analysis&lt;/em&gt; is a cheap gloss on Hitchcock&amp;apos;s masterpiece, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/vertigo-19961004\"&gt;Vertigo&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/em&gt; in which Jimmy Stewart&amp;apos;s obsession with the unattainable Kim Novak calls into question the nature of illusion and reality. Dr. Barr attains Heather in a snap, despite her jealous gangster husband, Jimmy (a creepy Eric Roberts). There are gimmicks galore: incest, betrayal, murder and my favorite, pathological intoxication. Heather suffers from it &amp;#x2013; one sip of alcohol, even in medicine, and she&amp;apos;s out of control. &lt;em&gt;Final Analysis&lt;/em&gt; suffers from something much worse: terminal shallowness.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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