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75The movie is ingenious in the way it surrounds its essentially crass subject matter with a camouflage of romantic scenery.
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75Indecent Proposal is as relentlessly entertaining as it is silly--so shamelessly over the top that you watch in a mixture of horror and delight as the drama unfolds toward a climax that is truly mind-boggling.
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70Mr. Lyne's films may not cast any new light on the human condition, but they do keep you glued to the screen.
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60The performances are alright enough but the casting was a bizarre choice and it's just not strong enough to carry the premise.
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50As sexist propaganda, the film is shameless.
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50Once the setup is over, however, Indecent Proposal starts to fall apart, with the implausibilities and contrivances getting worse with every passing minute.
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50Indecent Proposal starts out kinky and turns into a languid-and shockingly banal- domestic soap opera.
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40Lyne has the stylized talent of a soft-core pornographer; he choreographs his movies like languorous sex scenes.
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40Because director Adrian Lyne takes all this so slowly and seriously, Indecent Proposal is an inadvertent comedy. As such, it is much funnier than "Honeymoon in Vegas", which tried in vain to be funny about the same idea.
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40He's obsessed with the physical details instead of the human emotions. The actors are really just part of the scenery.
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38With some movies, though, it's just the opposite. Like this one. It's a whole lot easier to forget than to forgive.
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30Redford's Gage is so busy being exquisitely sensitive and polite he neglects to project any energy, and without it the crucial morning-after part of the movie gradually collapses under the weight of its own self-importance. [07 Apr 1993 Pg. F1]
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30This is one of those high-concept pictures with a big windup and weak delivery.
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30The movie is hardly in a position to chastise Gage for his empty soul when its own style is one of numbing, desolate slickness.
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25There's nothing sleazier than sleaze that fails to titillate, and this drab blight on a hot cast is as sleazy as a preordained hit ever gets. [07 Apr 1993 Pg. 08.D]
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20In Adrian Lyne's latest monstrosity, love takes on money -- and loses. Not necessarily in the story, of course. This is a Hollywood movie. I'm talking between the lines.
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10With a shamelessly cliched script by Amy Holden Jones (based on a novel by Jack Engelhard) that includes a speech plagiarized from Citizen Kane, the results are only for those who can take fare like "Valley of the Dolls" with a straight face and want to see Redford play Jay Gatsby again.
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