And so it is........

Rating: 9/10 (6 March 2005)

And so it is......just like you said it should be, life goes easy on me, most, of the time.
The lyrics of Damien Rice start this great movie about four people who's concept of love and relationships is anything but normal. Let me say this these characters are not good people, they are anything but, however you end up loving them for it because of the realism they represent. Life is not filled with people that always do the right thing that meet a girl get married and have children. The truth is this doesn't happen most of the time and this film shows it to perfection. Julia Roberts who i usually don't like is especially good in this film because she is amazing at supporting the scenes she is in. I hope she chooses to do more movies like this in the future. Jude Law is his usual self charming and kind with a sense of mystery about him that makes you not able to take your eyes off him. BUT MOST OF ALL, the performances of Natalie Portman and Clive Owen are especially well done because they make the film go from great to incredible. Portman gives a performance that mixes the right tone of "who is she" and "But i want her" while the break out performance that had it been done poorly the film would have been a bust is by Clive Owen. He is a great actor and needs to be used more by the movie making world. These great performances combined with masterful dialog the type you wish you could write if you are a writer but at the same time I often wished i talked this way. All around not to be missed.
Mike