Closer

Rating: 2/10 (15 January 2005)

Not one person sitting around me in the cinema found this film enlightening or entertaining. The characters had no redeeming qualities and it was hard to stay put in your seat until the end of the film. People leaving the cinema were discussing the 15 certificate and queried if it had been given the correct classification. Most were saying it should have been an 18. Two parents who'd come along with their teenage daughter squirmed in their seats next to me during the internet sex exchanges. The daughter sank into her seat mortified.
There were a couple of snappy one-liners but generally the wordy screenplay made it difficult for the actors to breathe life into. They seemed to believe even less in the characters they were playing than the audience and their portrayal of the jobs that their characters did was less than convincing. I won't be buying the DVD.