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A revisit of 2003 French erotic thriller “Nathalie…” with European cinema greats Emmanuelle Beart as the irresistible whore while Fanny Ardant and Gerard Depardieu play the embattled married couple, “Chloe” is a low-intensity Hollywood addition that will benefit from its array of A-listers and the intrigue of its decorated director Atom Egoyan (who has been shooting dark dramas since “Sweet Hereafter” in 1997) but ultimately falters because it cannot replicate the controlled explosiveness and the European sophistication in the original, leading us to question its character arcs.

After Catherine Hardwicke (“Twilight”) and Chris Weitz’s (“New Moon”) adaptation of the story, fans would see the continuation of the heated saga in “Eclipse” through the eyes of new director David Slade (“Hard Candy”), in which turns out to be much more favourable and edgier than previous two films.

Rob Schneider’s oeuvre doesn’t inspire much excitement in the average moviegoer. At most, people expect a dumb movie that might be reasonably funny and raunchy, expectations quickly lowered to match the low ambitions carried by films like Deuce Bigelow. But I imagine that even the most forgiving of moviegoers would have trouble lowering their expectations enough to make American Virgin seem in any way palatable. It’s just an awful film through and through, amazingly lowering the bar for Rob Schneider pictures.