Shockingly Awful

Rating: 1/10 (13 June 2011)

For long I've been trying to avoid it, but it finally happened. After rating more than four hundred movies here on IMDb, I've finally watched one that is bad enough to deserve a one star rating. That movie is "Closer".
It was painful to watch this movie and, by the end of it, I felt genuinely insulted.
The plot is so pretentious and vacuous that it makes any relationship adviser writing in a frivolous magazine seem worthy of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Whatever moral imperative or profound realization about relationships between men and women the writer though we were supposed to retain from this terrible movie, it was surely lost amongst the wreckage of inappropriate intensity and unrealistic emotional drivel that dominates this picture.
Without exception, all performances were dreadful. When they (the actors) scream, it generally seems unconvincing. When they cry, it usually seems unsuitable and insincere. And whatever expression or gesture they throw at each other during the movie seems contrived, misplaced and sometimes even alien to the scene.
Some of the passages and dialogs are so artificial and unrefined that I ended up feeling like I was watching a post-modern porn flick. Yes, it is that bad; a total waste of time, money and a considerable portion of one's mental soberness.
I honestly can't believe that this vulgar and revolting film has received an overall 7.4 rating. I guess this world is a lot crazier than I thought.