Absolutely awful

Rating: 1/10 (16 September 2006)

This is a truly rare creature, a storyline without a single sympathetic character or redeeming feature. The four chief protagonists (a word chosen deliberately) are so thoroughly unlikeable that I had no interest whatsoever in watching their misery unfold. I also struggled to imagine anyone acting in such a way as the ensemble - an impressive cast indeed - and simply could not relate to any aspect of the film. Jude Law's dialogue and Julia Roberts' reactions when she was photographing him were nauseating and the notion that she might not have simply laughed in his face defies logic. In my experience people seldom act like they do in this movie and, for the very few who do, their lives end up in nothing but misery. I have and had no interest in watching this train-wreck happen on screen.