A very touching, poignant film, also quite bold and daring. It looks deeply into the emotions and feelings of Francois, warts and all - not everything seen is pleasant... His motives are left open for discussion.

A really good thriller! Excellent plot, with lots of twists and turns. Couldn't take my eyes away from the screen! Good performances from Jane Fonda (won oscar for this), the call girl, caught up in a man's disappearance, as well as Donald Sutherland, the dutiful private detective. Roy Scheider is fairly convincing as the slimy pimp. The entire film is creepy, with a great deal of Hitchcock type gimmicks, i.e. shadows, long winding staircases, bumping and creaking noises - it isn't all visual, a lot of it is left up to the imagination, which is often best. Also, repeated playbacks of recorded conversations are initially kinky, but become quite disturbing, depending on who's listening to whom, and what they are saying.

Definitely worth watching!

A very good film. These characters are supposed to be superficial, one dimensional people, as displayed in the novel by Bret Easton Ellis. When I first watched this movie, I didn't think much of it, however, after viewing American Psycho a few times, with its obvious sarcasm, cynicism and humour, as well as reading the book, and seeing these same methods of expressing his (Bret Easton Ellis) point(s) of view, I was able to watch this film from a different angle, so to speak. I can now appreciate all the work that has gone into designing each character, making them and their lifestyles quite dull and meaningless, judging everything on face-value, and so on. The things they do and say to each other are loathsome, they are unbelievably inconsiderate of each other, and judge each other due to social class, rather than on actual personality. None of them really have a personality or any individuality - they are so indistinguishable that one person could easily be mistaken for another. This doesn't happen, literally, in The Rules of Attraction, but what various characters say or do are generally so meaningless, that they could easily be said or done by any of the other characters - it isn't difficult to imagine.

A much better example of this is shown throughout American Psycho, as its main character aka Patrick Bateman is called different names throughout the film, which questions his identity, his individuality, and so on. Patrick Bateman is given reference to in The Rules of Attraction, since this film features his younger brother, aka Sean Bateman (the drug dealer, played by James Van Der Beek)

Overall, quite a mind-blowing experience, with its forwards and backwards beginning, ending up where it started. Don't by any means think this is going to be a normal, happily ever after Hollywood film. It's very far from that, but much more interesting in different respects. Definitely worth watching!

One of the best thrillers I've seen - it really scared me! Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie were excellent.