Everyone is bisexual, said Freud. Premised on the theories of sexuality, Chloe is a psychological film, masquerading as a thriller. Although movie go-ers will appreciate Chloe for its psychological insights on identity and sexual desires, the plot only goes down hill as the film progress. The caveat: if your eyes had been fixated solely on the nudity, you are in for a treat as eroticism only gets more intense.

The film presents frills of intellectualism that are littered with skin and sex. Director, Atom Egoyan portrays Chloe (Amanda Seyfried) as an atypical call girl who isn't only after sex and money.

"I can be your unflinching dream", Chloe tells you. But little did you know that those words are not directed at males only. You can never get enough of doe-eyed Chloe, with creamy skin colour and luscious lips. One moment she is smiling innocently at you, then, she stops to give a piercing stare - you begin to doubt her intentions, but mostly seduced by the enigmatic woman.

At her prime, Chloe exudes sensuality, unlike Catherine (Juliaane Moore) who has lost that defining trait of a woman. Catherine is introduced as a middle age gynecologist observing a young call girl - Chloe - at her act. She then gets called back to work, with a woman quizzing her on orgasm, to which she replied in a deadpan way, "It's just a contraction of muscles, nothing mysterious or magical about it." From this, we draw hints of her mid-life crisis. Catherine is increasingly aware that the control she has over many aspects in her life is slipping away.

Catherine becomes suspicious when her husband, David (Liam Neeson), a professor, misses his flight home on his birthday. An incriminating text as evidence of his purported infidelity, Catherine sets her husband up by hiring Chloe to test his faithfulness. Chloe engineers a meeting with David and proceeds to seduce him. Details of their dalliance are reported back to Catherine who succumbs to her voyeuristic instincts and crave for more racy details. In a way, that drew her emotionally closer to David. The highlight, however, is the way the two women drew deeper into a portentous tangle as the details aroused Catherine's sensual instincts.

The twist unveils the mysterious relationship between Chloe and Catherine, and thereafter, the film becomes trite and corny. For all the smartness the film presented in the beginning, and with a suspenseful built up to a relatively unexpected twist, the end is disappointing.

For all that Chloe promised as a psychological thriller, it fulfilled lesser than what it should. Without the seasoned delivery of Amanda Seyfried and Juliaane Moore, Chloe would be a flop. Even so, the hackneyed ending pulled the film into the doldrums; it is simply schlock.