Who cares about these self-absorbed losers?

Rating: 5/10 (11 April 2005)

Another movie about thoroughly unlikeable people willing to destroy other human beings for their own personal gratification; how utterly delightful. I generally like Julia Roberts, and think Jude Law is sensational, but I cannot get excited about an actor's skill in roles such as these. I don't want to know these people, I don't have any empathy for their mutually inflicted wounds, and anyone who believes this is "real", this is how it is, relationships always go like this is suffering the well-deserved maladies of the "I'm my hero" generation. There are actually real live people in this world who care about each other, who try not to hurt each other, who worry about what the "other" in their unit of two wants so that they can satisfy that need. This is sick, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice after 35 years of casual sex, multiple pairings and self indulgence has left them rolling in the gutter, exhausted and disgusted with themselves and each other.