A lame movie ugh!

Rating: 5/10 (19 August 2010)

I have watched this movie about 4 days ago. I am already forgetting a lot of what happens in the movie. In four weeks I will probably forget huge parts of the movie and in four months my only memory will be of Ethan Hawke's terrible performance. We are introduced to Ethan sporting some bad facial hair. So he meets this attractive girl and starts talking to her. He somehow manages to convince her to get off with him in Vienna. This came as a huge surprise for me due to the fact he plays a character that has the social skills of an ape! He tells her of his idea of watching a person for 24 hours on some cable TV programme. I think at this point Ethan is more of a Hannibal Lecter than Humphrey Bogart. So my theory of him being crazy was a little off but later on through the movie my theory of him being an annoying human being was spot on. So the film is trying to be artsy and romantic but it misses by a long way. We go through the motions of a couple who go on a 1st date and who have a great time. Constantly waiting for something exciting to happen but alas poor Ethan doesn't even get laid in the end. They don't exchange numbers and finally agree to meet in 6 months at the train station. So we are left wondering but not caring what would happen. So if there was genuine fans of this movie to would have to wait just 9 years to see the sequel. I'm on the edge of my seat!!!! Anyways they should have got each others emails and g chatted I hear its great fun!!! ;-)