Synopsis
A psychiatrist becomes romantically involved with the sister of one of his patients, but the influence of her controlling gangster husband threatens to destroy them both.
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Cast
- Richard GereIsaac Barr
- Kim BasingerHeather Evans
- Uma ThurmanDiana Baylor
- Eric RobertsJimmy Evans
- Paul GuilfoyleMike O'Brien
- Keith DavidDetective Huggins
- Robert HarperAlan Lowenthal
- Agustin RodriguezPepe Carrero
- Rita ZoharDr. Grusin
- George MurdockJudge Costello
Recommendations
- 90
Variety
Final Analysis is a crackling good psychological melodrama [from a screen story by Robert Berger and Wesley Strick] in which star power and slick surfaces are used to potent advantage. Tantalizing double-crosses mount right up to the eerie final scene. - 70
Orlando Sentinel
In the final analysis, the action-picture mechanics of the film are too limiting. No Mercy barely has a subject, much less a theme. Yet moments from the picture linger in the mind. If you don't leave the theater satisfied, you may at least be moved. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
The most gripping performers are on the sidelines: Eric Roberts, a master of hyperbolic sliminess (he’s like Cagney playing a pimp on steroids), and Uma Thurman, who brings her underwritten role a hundred shades of curiosity, brattishness, and hopeless romantic fervor. She couldn’t be a stand-in if she tried. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
Final Analysis is the kind of movie that's a lot more fun to look at than to think about. Maybe that's the point. - 60
Washington Post
Final Analysis, an implausible psycho thriller with Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman and Richard Gere, has so many twists, turns and backward leaps, the actors tackle their work like trained poodles in a circus act. - 50
The New York Times
Phil Joanou's Final Analysis is an entertaining exercise in psychological suspense up to a point. Then the ghost that has been pleasurably haunting it, that of Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo," turns out to be an illusion, and the real villain is revealed as that implacably clear-eyed monster, demon logic. - 40
Empire
That most essential element in a thriller, the suspense, collapses mid-film, making it hard to care about the eventual denouement. - 40
Time Out
An overlong, hardly believable psychological thriller.
