waste of Portman

Rating: 3/10 (19 February 2005)

She plays a pathological liar with epilepsy who can ice skate. There wasn't any time to spend on her character's development, though, for all that ground work. The plot is so focused on Braff's character that she's practically wasted outside of making out (extensively), breaking up and making up with Braff's character. These love scenes seem all the more cliché in this film because so many of the other scenes are unreal by design. I missed the depth of this movie if it's there. It seems to me that these scenes were meant to look cool and the dialog written to sound cool but that meaning and continuity were secondary aims if they were goals at all.