(CNN) -- How can an actor who attempts to convey every conceivable emotion by quickly blinking his eyes maintain a career for 25 years?
"Unfaithful," yet another soon-to-be-forgotten Richard Gere vehicle, is an overheated melodrama about a woman who strays from her monotonous husband, only to force him into a nasty situation that cries out for multiple bouts of eye-blinking.
Surprisingly, Gere dwells in the background for much of the picture, while Diane Lane, as his sexually supercharged wife, repeatedly takes off her blouse and strips down to her panties. Lane's near-obsessive aversion to clothing, while beneath her significant abilities as an actress, is the only commendable move in the entire film.
