I now hate Jude Law with a fiery passion

Rating: 1/10 (6 March 2005)

This was the most god-awful movie I've seen in quite some time. Don't get me wrong, I like all of the people in it (Natalie Portman, and had previously liked Jude Law, and I suppose Julia Roberts is OK). But this movie was like 90210 on steroids. It was border-lining incoherent at times, with a plot that inspires nothing and seemingly random turns for no other reason than the dramatic effect. Now, I like a good love story (or heartbreak story, this seems to be both) as much as the next guy, but this tried to do both and ended up doing neither all too well. It's not that the dialog wasn't good or the acting was bad (when in fact, it's probably the silver lining of the movie), but the turns of events in the movie occurs so often and so seemingly randomly (with not enough build-up in between) and the characters just seem so unrealistic that it's difficult to either sympathize or empathize with them. It then makes it much more difficult to find these events interesting. About the only event that I truly found interesting was at the very end when it is revealed that Alice's (Natalie Portman's character) real name was Jane Jones, which she had originally told Anna's husband when he was trying to get some honesty from her. That was the only time she truly let her guard down. However, that one part of the plot does not make up for poorly implemented parts of the rest of the plot. The movie was borderline boring and the lack of coherency and realistic characters just makes it unbearable. It was like an entire season of 90210 compressed into 2 hours.