"MOTIVES"...."LOYALTY AND BETRAYAL"...

The movie "Motives" which was made in 2004, is a movie about grudges and revenge. The movie stars actress Vivica A. Fox and actor Shemar Moore.

In the film Vivica A Fox, who plays Connie, is married to Shemar More,who plays Emery. Emery is a sucessful buisnessman in the city of Atlant, while Connie works for a childrens home. They were high school sweethearts and got married shortly after high school. The movie begins at the opening night of Emerys' newest restaraunt in Atlanta. That night Emery meets a young lady named Alana who is played by actress Golden Brooks. Later that night Emery and Alana went back to his car on the roof where she seduced him.

The next couple of days Emery and Alana would meet up to be together. To cover his tracks and not get caught with his wife he had his best friend from high school, and also the manager of is restaraunts call Connie and tell her that Emery was with him and they were doing buisness. This is when Connie began getting suspicious of Emerys' whereabouts and began to question him, and of course he lied.

About three weeks into their affair Emery had bought Alana an apartment and this is now where they met for their "dates". About after a week that this had been going on Alana sent Connie an e-mail with pictures of her and Emery "together". Connie then set up a lunch date with Alana. Alana told Connie that she was pregnant by Connie and she would leave town and not cause their family any more harm if she would give her money. Connie wrote her a check for $100.000. That evening Connie told her about the day and what she had learned and did, and then packed her bags and left Emery.

That night Emery went over to Alanas' apartment and demanded that she give the check back that Connie had written her. While Alana and Emery where arguing, Alanas ex-boyfriend walks in the apartment and him and Emery begin to fight. While all this commotion was going on Alana slips out the front door with the check. Waiting outside was Brandon, Emerys' restaurant manager. When Alana tries to run away he catches her and slits her throat. The police questioned both Emery and Alanas' ex-boyfriend. The police were clueless as to which one of the men commited the murder until the received the murder weapon from an anonymous person,which was later revealed that it was Brandon, Emerys'best friend. The murder weapon, which was a box cutter had Emerys' finger prints in it, and he was convicted of murder.

Brandon had been in love with Connie in high school and still held a grudge against Emery for that. He also was jealous that Emery got all the money and fame for owning the restaurants but he was the one who did all the work to keep the buisnesses up and running. Of course at the end Connie and Emery end up getting a divorce and her and Brandon get back together.. There is a sequel to this movie, but I believe that the first one is the best.

It's a really good movie, just kind of hard to follow...