Chloe - Movie Review

At first glance, Chloe’s main star would look to be Amanda Seyfried (Jennifer’s Body), and sometimes being the main star doesn’t always mean having the most screen-time. Sometimes the main character is represented more as a force of nature trapped inside a human being.

David Stewart (Liam Neeson, Taken) misses his flight home on the night of his birthday. Catherine Stewart (Julianne Moore, A Single Man), is dismayed to find this out as she had spent significant time gathering all of his closest friends and co-workers together for a surprise birthday party. This proves to be another blow to their shaken marriage. Adding to her burden is their reclusive, moody, musically gifted son – Michael (Max Thieriot, Stay Cool), treating her like she is the immovable thorn in his sensitive side, completely disdained to any authority she feels entitled to.

The following morning, David is home and life is receding back to normalcy until a ringing cell phone picked up by Catherine from David’s bag reveals that David may not have missed his flight at all, but the spent the night out with a younger woman. Catherine’s suspicions get the best of her, so by chance she meets and hires Chloe. Catherine wants Chloe to bump into her husband, spend time with him, and report back the events that happen. The stories that Chloe recites equally enrage and entice Catherine, and she begins to experience a sexual longing that had been long forgotten. So, rather than confront David at first, she allows these feelings to intensify until finally, her frustrations erupt into one weak, emotionally charged moment with Chloe which Chloe mistakes for love, and Chloe will not be told to go away, or be bought off with money or gifts; she will find some way to be in Catherine’s life, at the cost of anyone else’s life.

Individually, the cast turns in worthy performances as Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore are often guaranteed to deliver something credible. Amanda Seyfried does seem like the outcast here and it works completely for her and her character. She is supposed to an outcast, someone thinking outside of the i-Phone obsessed, instantly gratified, impatient internet life. Her devious actions are nearly dismissed because of her beauty and innocence when she is onscreen, yet her damaging effects are everlasting when she is nowhere to be seen.

Chloe is a movie worth renting or catching at the dollar theater while you can. If you are a fan of any of the three main stars (Seyfried, Neeson, & Moore) it is definitely worth seeing, but Chloe – the film, isn’t anything we haven’t seen before, which isn’t so bad, but it isn’t mandatory viewing.