With the success of last year's No Other Woman, local films on infidelity have become a sudden trend, and A Secret Affair is not only the worst of its kind, but it's one of the worst movies I've seen in the last decade. A duplicate of No Other Woman, the movie this time partners Derek Ramsay and Anne Curtis (the cavorting couple in No Other Woman) with Andi Eigenmann as the other woman.
Rafi (Curtis) gets cold feet on her wedding day, dumps her fiance Anton (Ramsay) and tearfully flies to New York for some soul-searching.
Anton, then, tries to mend his broken heart by having sex with an ex-fling—and Rafi's friend—Sam (Eigenmann), on all available hard surfaces (vertical or horizontal). The unaware Rafi soon returns home and decides to patch things up with Anton...but it's not as easy as she thinks because of the freakily obsessed Sam.
Directed by Nuel Naval, A Secret Affair is an utter disgrace to humanity. Here, you get to watch the three leading stars who are sexy, glossy and glamorized recite their English-language script, which is just an embarrassing and cringe-inducing collection of cliches. Also, the movie portrays socialites that come off as social climbers; high-class on the outside, low-class on the inside.
Ramsay is nothing but a sex object here and Eigenmann has zero acting skills. And the movie highlights what it sadly deems to be its ingenuity— the "quotable quotes," i.e., revolting crass one-liners mostly fired away by Rafi and Sam's scandalous and ill-bred fighting mothers played by Jaclyn Jose and Jackie Lou Blanco, who are costumed like wealthy women but given a script peppered with coarse language to cater to the taste of the unrefined; their trashy lines carefully formed as a desperate attempt to be a hit on social media sites.
A Secret Affair is a disgusting experience. An insult to the intelligence and morals, and a crude medium to empower women who are victims of infidelity. The movie is so poorly written that the characters come off as unsophisticated, low-class psychopaths in a strange, strange, fictional immoral world. There is absolutely zero value in this movie. Watching it feels like committing an immoral sin worse than infidelity.
0 out of 5 starsAvailable on DVD December 13, 2012
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