Sick & Disgusting

Rating: 1/10 (7 December 2004)

I looked forward to seeing this movie after I saw the TV commercials for it. I'm a big fan of Roberts, Portman and Law. I was expecting an intriguing story that would show the dark and painful side of betrayal.
Maybe it was, I didn't stick around to find out.
First, the beginning totally drags (you already feel depressed, thinking, why am I wasting valuable holiday shopping time sitting in a boring, depressed movie). The concept of time was murkey at best and you don't realize that a year or so has past between Jude Law & Natalie Portman's character's initial meeting and the next scene. But that's not why we walked out.
What really bothered me was the cyber sex scene that followed. Was it necessary to continue that scene on for so long? First, the scene was between two men (which may bother some viewers, even though one of the men was pretending to be a woman). The language was very, very crude. Think of every dirty, perverted and sick thing you can and imagine it being typed in a chat room, only you're watching it on the big screen. If I reproduced the conversation here, I would be banned from this site. The scene goes on forever. There are also graphic banner ads for pornography sites(hopefully fake).
My husband actually had his eyes closed, something you may not expect a 28-year-old man to do, but he felt very uncomfortable to watch this - as did I. After a few minutes of squirming through the scene we gathered our belongings and left.
Interesting, a couple in their mid-to-late 20s, a generation that many view as being totally open-minded and the cause for our crumbling morality leaves the theater while the seats remained packed with our baby boomer parents. Hmmmm.