Life can be a series of happenstance which is what Mike Figgis has strung together into the plot of this movie. The cast is more than adequate and does quite well with Robert Downey jr., giving the best performance in the movie. The skill of a director and making a movie is to create an environment in which the viewer suspends disbelief and doesn't go back later and pick the movie apart. Figgis has failed, not because of chance encounters, but because the movie is too symmetrical for its own good. It is unbelievable because Figgis did not spend the time on screen developing the characters sufficiently to motivate what happens in the ending. The premise of a one night stand affecting one's life is more than plausible. When it all comes out in the wash, I simply don't see the chemistry between Nastassja Kinski and Wesley Snipes and without that the movie makes no sense and ultimately falls apart.
Review of One Night Stand
