Desire, actually

Rating: 3/10 (23 November 2003)

I really didn't enjoy this film, for all its moments of comedy and several good performances. The brazen tackiness of it all raised my hackles. It wants SO MUCH for you to like it, from the title to the sound track, that it falls over itself. Further more, it isn't really about love at all. What we see time and again is desire, plain and simple. Real love (self-sacrifice, constancy, selflessness etc) barely enters the equation. In fact, you could say the parading of this imposter does it, if anything, a great disservice. Curtis would have done better to think up a good story and tell it, rather than air the rather half-baked philosophical concept underlying these different scenarios.