Not all that great

Rating: 7/10 (25 June 2002)

Having seen this film a few times, I read other comments and was wondering what it was I missed. I like independent movies, romantic independent movies especially but this film left me apathetic. Some parts of it were terrific. The scene where they make imaginary phone-calls to their friends to talk about each other was wonderful. But if they fell so hard for each other then why didn't they feel the need to call or write? Because that would require too much effort? The ending causes this movie to fall short. The 'lets leave everything to chance' routine has been used so much in recent years its become groan inducing. Jesse says that people in a committed relationship become bored with each other once they've learned everything there is to know. That didn't sound real to me. It sounded like an excuse.