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Wesley Snipes stars as a commercial director who begins to reevaluate his life after a visit with his AIDS-infected best friend (Robert Downey Jr.) and a one night stand with a beautiful rocket scientist (Nastassja Kinski). Though it shows some intelligence in dealing with issues of loss and adultery, Mike Figgis' latest effort lacks the complexity and emotional heft of Leaving Las Vegas. What redeems the sketchy script just enough to make the film bearable is Figgis' jazzy direction and a nuanced performance by Snipes...
...Kinski barely registers. In her early scenes with Snipes she is vulnerably cute, after which she just stands around looking hopelessly vacant. She is upstaged by Wen (who played June in The Joy Luck Club). Snipes and Wen have great chemistry, taking an argument about a dress and twisting it beautifully into a full-out tete-a-tete. Snipes' nuanced performance--for which he received the Best Actor Award at this year's Venice Film Festival--makes you wish that he would give up playing generic action heroes and return to more serious acting like that of his earlier work...
...over-sexed wife Mimi (Ming-Na Wen) and two children. During a business trip to New York, he visits his best friend Charlie (Robert Downey Jr.), a performance artist stricken with AIDS, gets separated from his production team and somehow ends up stranded in the city with Karen (Nastassja Kinski), a beautiful rocket scientist (you heard me). After going to a Beethoven concert, flirting shamelessly at a jazz club and escaping a nearly fatal mugging, Karen and Max, surprise, surprise, end up in bed together. Snipes returns home emotionally shaken and begins to question the stability of his marriage...
...script by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel makes the most of this contrast -- too many side trips into bathroom humor -- but it does feed the stars enough decent patter to keep them ticking in their disparate ways." Reitman does provide two nice casting surprises: the formerly hot Nastassja Kinski as the sweetly scheming mom and Seinfeld?s Julia Louis-Dreyfus, crisped up with a chicness Elaine can only dream about, as Crystal?s sharply skeptical wife. Still, says Sheppard, "One can?t quite escape the feeling that no one involved in Fathers? Day (which is yet another Americanized version...
Just because NASTASSJA KINSKI has made an action movie (Terminal Velocity) and is starring in a film originally conceived by schlock-hack Joe Eszterhas, don't think she has lost her art-house intensity. One Night Stand, which also stars WESLEY SNIPES, may sound like the name of a Showgirls sequel, but according to Kinski, it ain't so. "The title is fooling us," Kinski says. "This is an important film. It has to do with a man and a woman. It has to do with what we all look for in our lives." Besides, Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas...