It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Final Analysis, is a film that really puts a spin on psychological thrillers, and it's a spin I love. Re teaming here is Gere and Basinger after that forgettable No Mercy back in 87, and Basinger here shows no mercy when killing her rich and abusive gangster husband, (Roberts). Rightly so, he deserved to die as he's a real bastard to her, even in restaurants, where he gives Gere the bad eye, for ogling her. We then meet em' in the toilet, it's a bit of an tense and unnerving moment. Gere plays a psychiatrist, and he isn't bad, as is Basinger as the murderess, where I like Thurman's enigmatic and twisted performance more. FA does take a while to move along. Be patient. Stretching out to a two hour running time, he does beautifully flow as did Jennifer 8. We more so want Robert's to die, where too, there's layers to Basinger's motives besides ridding him of his abuse. And I really liked where this went. When Gere really finds out what happened, he himself is cornered, on the account of a missing attachment to a dumbbell, which has his prints on it, a no finer moment for Basinger who says threateningly to Gere, "Don't f with me Issac". I liked the fact too, that Keith David was in this as a hardened detective who doesn't approve of Gere's prognosis's, even suggesting David should have a session, after letting a young mentally ill Latino kid, free. Gere later uses him (and I'm glad the kid didn't die) to retrieve that missing piece of dumbbell. Basinger is bloody hot in this too, where she could almost smoke up a scene anywhere. The ending is one of the most suspenseful ones I've seen in a thriller, at that light house. The photography shots are awesome, where this film is pretty awesome, but I don't want to press it. One of the best best psychological dramas of 1992.

FINAL ANALYSIS sees director Phil Joanou outdoing Brian de Palma in his Hitchcock homages, for this is a Hitchcockian thriller through and through. It's the story of a psychiatrist who becomes involves with a beautiful blonde client, and along the way throws in various scenarios including a courtroom showdown and some high-rise peril too.It's an extraordinarily derivative film, but it manages to be great fun with it, and that's what counts, after all. FINAL ANALYSIS has dated in the same way that most movies from the 1990s have; every scene is overblown and overstylised, and the characters act in hugely unbelievable ways. The writers never let realism or credibility get in the way of another plot twist or suspense-wracked set-piece.Richard Gere is on autopilot here and rather bland with it: there's nothing much to like about his boring character, and he's played the same role (of a guy falling head over heels for a pretty girl) so many times that he seems bored. Kim Basinger is better, really getting her teeth into a different kind of role from the ones she usually plays, but the real stand-outs are the supporting players. Uma Thurman is edgy and burns up the screen, Keith David's broad comic relief really works, and Eric Roberts is incredibly sleazy and frightening as a controlling husband.I was delighted to discover, as I watched, that I had no idea where the story was going. Plot twist developed upon plot twist and I was frequently surprised and shocked by many of them. Of course, it's not really anything that hasn't been done before - and better, too - but it's a nice piece of entertainment for thriller and suspense fans nonetheless.

I think this movie is heavily underrated. Because if you could sit through the first half, the second half you will be glued to your seat. I mean the suspense keep coming one after another. Outstanding screenplay (I look up the co-author also wrote Capefear.) With so much twists and turns you won't believe. It's hard even for today's standard to find such powerful complex script. The classical original soundtrack sounds so annoying and cliché'. But the acting is remarkable. Gere and Kim Basinger is in their unusual role. I think the reason why people don't like the movie because they want to see them in other sugarcoated roles. Camera shots are boring as hell. But of course that was 1992.

I don't really understand why this film has such a low rating. Most of the movie is very good. The story, the acting and the cinematography are very good. The story also has a lot of plot twists and the acting is very good. The screenplay is quite intelligent. Only the end is a bit less good, and that's a pity, because this could have been a masterpiece. The end is a bit stupid. Phil Joanou did a good job directing this film. It's a pity this film doesn't get a higher rating on IMDb. Richard Gere, Kim Basinger and Uma Thurman do a good job too. I recommend this film. It's not a masterpiece, but it's certainly not bad.