Not great, but far from TORTURE

Rating: Null/10 (19 June 2005)

The only thing torturing about this flick is deciding weather or not to see it, after reading so many REALLY BAD reviews on this site, which run the gamut from DON"T WASTE YOUR money and time, to visions of ripping ones skin off. Look, if you are a nut like me who sits here for way too long reading reviews before going to the video store, let me save you some time with this one. Look at all the EXTREME good reviews about Closer, then look at the EXTREME bad ones, and think somewhere in-between. At least that was my experience. I saw it as neither ultra realistic or un. It's not ridiculous though. I mean c'mon, this sort of thing DOES reflect some modern romance issues. I also found parts of it pretty funny, through the use of irony. Really the performance of Owen is worth the price of admission alone. To me, the ONLY REAL FLAW was the ending. I think perhaps the people who leave the room or bang their head against the wall while watching this film are probably not seasoned movie watchers, or perhaps too seasoned. May be their just impatient. I don't know, I'm a pretty avid movie watcher, and this film, to me, while it was not brilliant, was clever, was not pretentious (as many thought) and definitely did not SUCK. That is all.