As said before, Natalie and Clive are spectacular

Rating: 6/10 (8 October 2006)

As Clive Owen's Larry often comments, "how could he leave you?" The idea of Jude Law's Dan leaving the sexy, exuberant and very snarky Alice for the plain-Jane Anna is a hard concept to wrap your mind around. You simply must believe in the concept of two souls so unbelievably drawn to each other that nothing else matters.
I feel as though I am giving Julia Roberts the short end of the stick, she acts the part with moderate success, only shining on the rare occasion that her dialog exceeds anyone else's. The movie is a tale of deception and love and complicated a complicated love...square?
Where this film exceeds more spectacularly is not only in Owen and Portman's brilliance, but in the outside character development. In many movies with similar story lines the two characters who instigate the affairs have significant others that are either a) unsatisfying and dull, b) too nice for their own good or, c) one who is not up to par with their partners. In this case, none of the above apply. Alice shimmers and turns heads everywhere she goes and despite her love Dan still finds it fit to cheat on her relentlessly. How he goes from attempting to convince Anna to see him to being loving boyfriend in a split second is quite amazing.
I am not the first to say that the two nominated for Academy Awards in this picture are truly the greatest, there was no oversight whatsoever for the other two leads. Jude Law does have chemistry with Alice that makes their relationship all the more believable, but you cannot help but wonder...why in God's name would he leave her?