If you only know Wesley Snipes from commercials for exercise equipment or Blade the part Vampire movies, then you probably don't remember him back before he was a cliché. Back when he did things like the Crazy "To Wong Foo".He is great in this movie. Everyone is great. You kinda know it is going to be one of those great little movies when you start seeing the usual suspects of great little indie movies like Kyle McLachlan and Robert Downey Jr plus of course, Julian Sands.Beautifully shot, emotionally wrenching, very human and tolerant about love in all it's aspects (gay/straight, bi-racial, etc) it is just a great great movie. I found it a feel-good movie even though there gut wrenching scenes of loss, mostly thanks to the brilliant Downey. I find it very life affirming.

Watched "One Night Stand", followed by "Goodfellas" and then watched the Director's Commentary for "One Night Stand."Englightening. Intriguing. Sloppy."One Night Stand" took on a lot: Racism, Stereotypes, Adultery, AIDS, Family-life. One IMDb author badmouthing this film: "How is this realistic?" In the grand scope of life, we do much more unrealistic things. Problem is, moviegoers need something more refined and a great deal more palatable. We've all eaten Mac & Cheese over the stove and had fancy steak dinners in the same calendar year, yet it's not good on the big screen.The ensemble delivers the story well. The major problem is in Figgis. He takes on way too much at once. He has to edit things down and all these realistic situations (because life is crazy) seem so unrealistic by the moviegoer's eye. He should have reigned it in quite a bit.There was such an attempt to joust with everything, to be REAL. I really cannot even get a handle on writing a short review. If you love Indie pics, you'll love this one. If you love director commentaries, you'll love this one, too.If you want a straight-forward flick, you'll hate "One Night Stand." The editing was rushed and the story was encumbered by all the extra-curriculars: Black Husband/Asian Wife, two-way extra-marital affairs, bi-coastal stereotyping, the Gay/AIDS "agenda." Whoo boy. I just don't have the time to tackle it all adequately, so I'll comment on the actors, which would have made a better script and better editing into a 7 or 8 star film (Goodfellas: 8, The Departed and Rocky: 10. In my book, you have to fire on every cylinder to be a 10. Most films are 4, 5, or 6).Wesley Snipes: Great Dramatic Acting about a man torn between where he is and where he wants to be in life.Ming-Na: excellent "American neglected wife" who happens to be Asian. Very anti-stereotypical role. Her stage presence is underscored by how poorly her role was written. She delivers it strongly.Thomas Hayden Church: He really performed so well, you wished for more of him on Camera, unfortunately, he was written only in support.Nastassia Kinski: Part Muse, Part Heroine in distress, Part Mistress foil to Wen's Mimi.Robert Downey Jr: Drug addict. If you've seen any movie where his character is some sort of addict, you've seen him before. Tab A, meet Slot B.Kyle MacLaughlin: Weakest player. Offered little substance to the movie - which he should have had a major part. Unfortunately, the scrip was way too heavy.Way too complicated, like life often is. A good screenplay strikes the balance, complicating only what is necessary. This script fails that, and in the end, the director has to rush through places where he should stop to breathe, and breathes in places he should have rushed.

Okay, so I've read all of the reviews on this movie. Let me break it down for you. I rented this movie already having a general idea what it was about. Even though I don't care for movies about infidelity, I wanted to see this particular one anyways. Ming-Na Wen is by far my absolute favorite actor, and I have always enjoyed watching Wesley Snipes' action movies.I've read the reviews and have concluded that this movie is getting far too much credit for it's "artsy" side. Yes, I agree with another reviewer that the movie is better once you watch the director's commentary version, but that doesn't replace the fact that I watched the entire movie with my stomach in knots. And don't get it twisted, it IS about infidelity. As the title suggests, there's a one night stand. Okay, I was expecting that. But the events that follow just drag the viewer down. Robert Downey Jr. played a decent role, but nothing extraordinary as others might have you believe. The entire movie is depressing, and the last ten minutes or so of the movie all the way up to the ending is just terrible! I'm not going to spoil anything, but let me just say that I hated it. The two scenes towards the end sealed my negative vote on this movie.I hate to write this, too. As I said, my favorite actor is in the movie, and I really enjoy most of the roles the other main actors have played in other films. But this flick dragged me down, and I wanted to eat a bullet by the end of the movie. Keep in mind, that the director (Michael Figgis) has a thing for infidelity (Does "Internal Affairs" ring any bells?), so just go into it knowing that.I'm sad to say it, but "One Night Stand" was a downer, despite all of the great actors and acting. Honestly, I would not recommend it. If you enjoy being cheated on and watching it happen to other people as well, then you'll probably love this movie. Knock yourself out.

I thought this film is good to watch if you like human drama. It begins with Max (Wesley Snipes) visiting a gay friend who is dying of aids. When he was on his visit, he has an passionate affair with a white, blond woman (Nastassja Kinski), who turns out to be the wife of his friend.This film has a daring take on interracial relation. While racial words were hardly mentioned in this film, the racial difference was apparent in the love scene between Snipes and Miss Kinski. The difference of skin color was even more explicitly apparent in the love scene when both characters are in bed together, and Snipes puts his black hands onto Nastassja Kinski's white breasts. The whiteness of Miss Kinski's body is also a reflection of her innocent feelings. These sexually sensitive scenes are quite a take on the courage of Miss Kinski. (she has two children at the time and she has to think about the influence on her children when they see their white mom being filmed naked with a black man).If you like dramas, I would recommend this film.