Dramatic work? More like comedy to me!

Rating: 3/10 (14 April 2006)

I enjoyed the movie, as I found it relaxing and I liked some of the landscapes and the story was sort of fun, although very stupid at times. The lead actor was very silly...but perhaps that's how his character had to be.
Before seeing this movie, I saw the trailer for it to get an idea about this movie. And it seems like you are better off just seeing the trailer, rather than the whole thing. There are a lot of things to criticize. First, there are certain phrases or dialog that seem extremely fake. And all the talking in between these fake phrases seem to be there just to connect them together. It's extremely cheesy/cliché..not sure what to call it. "I married a girl...family has nothing but money...". PPPppppplease! Although I understand what this movie was trying to be about, I don't like what it actually was. Yes, there are the so called "social climbers" that have the "luck" to get infiltrated into rich families like that, but it just seemed way too easy in this case. Everybody seemed to work just for the benefit of the lead actor. Scarlett J. liked him although she was involved with someone else, Chloe liked him almost immediately, the father liked him immediately...and the mother who apparently had a problem with Nola could see nothing wrong with Chris. I didn't like Scarlett's role (her acting was okay but I didn't like her character so much in the movie)...so she was American, so she was from a poor, broken family...so she didn't want to be poor...so she had no luck with acting...just a stupid character altogether. She was always giving interesting looks to the camera and she was always teasing with her presence and her eyes. She would go from being totally put together and relaxed about things, to drinking too much in the middle of the day and turning into a very lusty/flirty woman to taking pills and being desperate to confessing to us that she has had a few abortions before??? It all seemed very ridiculous..and if she was really that desperate she wouldn't look as well and as relaxed as she did at other times. Should I even go into the crime scene??? As soon as Chris made that pathetic move of stealing or borrowing the shotgun from the basement...I was just laughing ever since. The way he put it in his tennis bag and the way he had troubles putting it together and ...finally the way he killed the poor old lady....and finally...hello Nola...bang!...extremely stupid...!!! So, if you want to have fun, and maybe even laugh a little...while enjoying beautiful London images like the London Eye and the financial district (the camera work was good and I thought there were some great artistic shots that captured well the greatness of the city, and it tied in well with that great opportunity that London was for both Chris and Nola) and the calming yet very typical and simply presented life of the "higher class" then this movie is for you. Don't expect it to be great, don't expect any hidden or philosophical meanings, and please don't comment on how cool the whole LUCK thing was. He was lucky...ya, okay...but in a very simple, stupid sort of way!