TheMovieVampire’s review published on Letterboxd:
The Last Seduction is a film that is somewhat known for its production history as director John Dahl got the film made by selling it to his producers as a more shamelessly lascivious kind of “erotic thriller” of the skinemax variety and while they weren’t looking he turned the film into a more respectable neo-noir in the vein of Blood Simple or Body Heat. Linda Fiorentino stars as a particularly “fatale” femme Fatale who manipulates men into murdering for her (and occasionally does her own murdering). Her performance is the obvious standout in the film and the film’s story has some of that fatalism we’ve come to expect from the genre. The film’s budgetary limitations and occasional dives into salaciousness do reveal its origins and the film generally makes more sense as an entity once you know that backstory, it’s also a movie that generally exudes 90s-ness and you have to kind of be willing to go along with that aesthetic and find it interesting to enjoy the movie.