Sharp dialog and outstanding actors

Rating: 9/10 (13 February 2005)

Experienced director Mike Nichols has brought Patrick Marbers play to the big screen, and he's done a very good work. With sharp dialog that the four leading actors sets off with such perfect precision, that it sends chills down the spine on the spectator.
Some of the best scenes are the ones that start like any other quarrel but transforms into a verbal fight, that only by observing, feels like getting hit by a tank. Is is as superb as it is frightening.
The four leading actors, Law, Roberts, Portman and Owen are all magnificent. Especially Clive Owen's Larry really doesn't save any gunpowder when he fires off the thickest and most piercing lines.