An Attempt That Could Have Been More Successful

Rating: 7/10 (5 August 2013)

Closer Is A Misunderstood Film,But Not In The Good Way,So Here's The Deal:
First off let's talk about the acting,The performances are fine but they're not the best you will see in your life,Jude Law,Clive Owen,Natalie Portman And Julia Roberts try their best to make you believe the characters,but if you're like me you'll find that a bit difficult,And in my Opinion that's the Film's biggest problem,It can't make you believe the characters it has created because to be honest they do some ridiculous stuff that just take away that sense of trust in you.The problem aren't the actors but in my opinion the script writer and the director.In this film you're somewhat tricked into thinking that you're seeing a complex rich film,No the thing you're seeing is in fact a very confused film,See Oliver Stone once said "When You look At A Movie You Look At A Directors's Thought Process" i think in this movie director Mike Nichols keeped changing his mind between takes and you can clearly see his disarranged thought process.The writing i have to say is very inconsistent,In some dialogues you just want to applaud the writing(The Julia Roberts And Clive Owen One)and in some cases you just become bored,A good point in the film is that it demands your full attention almost throughout the whole of it and sometimes it actually doesn't disappoint,For example this movie slides through time without warning so if you're not the type to pay attention you might get very confused and in the end you will not understand it
Closer is not a horrible film,It's not a masterpiece either.it's a film that could have been a much better one had the director and the writer trusted each other a bit more