Nice try

Rating: 3/10 (28 May 2005)

The story was very good, but the film made too many compromises with casting that it ultimately fell flat.
Natalie Portman wants to be in the film, but she's not willing to do what it requires in terms of playing a stripper. It's not that she's a bad actress. I thought she handled the emotional scenes very well.
And then there's Julia Roberts. I'm not saying that she shouldn't be allowed to do things outside her 'Pretty Woman' thing. It's just that she wants to have her cake and eat it too. Her idea of making her character more vulnerable was to not wear as much makeup.
Jude Law can do his pretty-boy cruel shtick with his eyes closed. He wasn't miscast, just too predictable. And what was with all the weeping? They even got Clive to do the boo-hoos. Clive was pretty amazing as the doctor. He was the only believable one in the cast.
Cheers!