The Business of Strangers is a thriller, I would say one of a kind, but this time, this is not in the positive meaning of the word positive. Well, maybe it's only me, but I thought the movie is too strange for its own good. Of course I liked some scenes, but the movies was boring overall and as I said couple of times already - strange. So we have a mature woman who fires a young beautiful girl, but after she realizers life is not that bad, she brings the girl back to her job when they meet in a hotel. In fact the movie continues in the hotel and ends there which I consider as another pointless act.
The plot's direction leads us to another kind of movie, highly different than the first 15 minutes which are kinda promising if you don't have some big expectations. The movie is overrated according to IMDb's rating. It's even for 6.0. This is my opinion of course, but I am just saying this, cause your expectations might become higher if you see the rating and you might think the movie is special or something. As I said, it is different, but I didn't like that. I suppose, I should give some arguments why I don't like the movie that much or why I think it's strange. Well, there are some SPOILERS below. We have something like a friendship between a young beautiful girl with self confidence, eccentric character and optimistic look on her present and future life and a mature woman with strange understandings of life, dark past and pessimistic look on her future life. These 2 totally different girls meet and the movie becomes strange. First the director and writer as well, recreates a lesbian kind of story which was kinda strange addition to the plot and the idea of the movie. This is the main problem with the movie. I didn't get what does the creator of the movie, want to show with this relation between the two females. Then, when we think that these 2 girls are about to kiss or something, or if not, they would become best friends and they will trues each other although of them is under the control of the other when it comes to their job. Nope, that does not happen. When a guy arrives and meets Julie Stile's character, she tell her mature friend who knows the guy from a long time, that he had raped a friend of hers. Another strange plot twist that I didn't like. It was a really strange decision of the director. After these 2 strange plot directions, I realized the movie symbolizes something and it's full of deeper meanings that are not necessary at all.
Other than the stuff above, I was surprised from the good acting, the nice themes and the good directing. These things made me give a good rating for the movie. I don't quite know why. I guess, I've been in good mood. I always look for a great plot in similar kind of movies. Anyway, I don't recommend it to anyone, although I can't say it's the worst movie ever. I guess it just lost its potential, trying to be a thriller like no other.
The plot's direction leads us to another kind of movie, highly different than the first 15 minutes which are kinda promising if you don't have some big expectations. The movie is overrated according to IMDb's rating. It's even for 6.0. This is my opinion of course, but I am just saying this, cause your expectations might become higher if you see the rating and you might think the movie is special or something. As I said, it is different, but I didn't like that. I suppose, I should give some arguments why I don't like the movie that much or why I think it's strange. Well, there are some SPOILERS below. We have something like a friendship between a young beautiful girl with self confidence, eccentric character and optimistic look on her present and future life and a mature woman with strange understandings of life, dark past and pessimistic look on her future life. These 2 totally different girls meet and the movie becomes strange. First the director and writer as well, recreates a lesbian kind of story which was kinda strange addition to the plot and the idea of the movie. This is the main problem with the movie. I didn't get what does the creator of the movie, want to show with this relation between the two females. Then, when we think that these 2 girls are about to kiss or something, or if not, they would become best friends and they will trues each other although of them is under the control of the other when it comes to their job. Nope, that does not happen. When a guy arrives and meets Julie Stile's character, she tell her mature friend who knows the guy from a long time, that he had raped a friend of hers. Another strange plot twist that I didn't like. It was a really strange decision of the director. After these 2 strange plot directions, I realized the movie symbolizes something and it's full of deeper meanings that are not necessary at all.
Other than the stuff above, I was surprised from the good acting, the nice themes and the good directing. These things made me give a good rating for the movie. I don't quite know why. I guess, I've been in good mood. I always look for a great plot in similar kind of movies. Anyway, I don't recommend it to anyone, although I can't say it's the worst movie ever. I guess it just lost its potential, trying to be a thriller like no other.