a real disappointment

Rating: 4/10 (20 December 2004)

In spite of an attractive cast, with the exception of the homely Julia Roberts, the audience was given very little to care about. I actually felt sorry for Julia Roberts having her obvious imperfections magnified up on the big screen next to the drop dead gorgeous Catherine Zeta-Jones. Am I the only one to recognize that the Pretty Woman (emperor) has no looks (clothes).
By the time the very predictable film finally ground to an end, I had a headache from the hand held, and I am assuming filmed without SteadyCam, sequences. A few of these moments for effect are fine, but Soderbergh overused the technique, much to the detriment of the film. The absolutely ridiculous "dance" through the laser beam sequence made the audience at my screen just break out in laughter. If, as we had been told earlier, the lasers were random, no amount of silly break dancing or capoeira would avoid detection. You might just as well run screaming naked through the lobby.