Weird!

Rating: 5/10 (14 August 2005)

I had a movie session with my girlfriend a while ago, and we happen to stumble upon this piece of movie. It was her choice, and I know that I hadn't picked it if I had to choose. :-) Anyhow, this movie starts out rather weird and it contains a lot of jumping in the chronology, which was quite easy to follow for me (even though I thought it was quite weird) but my girlfriend was facing a hard time at times trying to follow the jumping in the chronology. Natalie Portman makes an excellent performance here (as usual) and really blends this movie. The performances by Jude Law and Clive Owen are OK, but I think that Julia Roberts makes one of her less good performances here.
The movie didn't really turn out to be an awful movie as I first expected by judging it from its first 30 minutes, and I have to admit that it settled a weird feeling in me that it was somehow OK, but I didn't really like it at all. The piece contains a few surprises for the analytic trying-to-predict freak, which were to my pleasure. But generally this weren't something I connected well with at all. 5/10, and those 5 points are just because of the neat acting here.