More for the music and dance - than the acting.

Rating: 4/10 (22 May 2005)

This is the kind of movie that you rent to while the time away with. In Old Hollywood terminology, it's a B-movie. It's meant for simple entertainment only. For what it's meant to be, it delivers. If you want more out of the story, rent the original Japanese film it is based on.
If you like music and dance, you will enjoy this movie. I have only one gripe with how it is available within IMDb ... namely, as a movie about music and dance -- and how it affects and identifies the characters and story -- it weaves a volume of songs and dance tunes into the emotions -- yet IMDb has failed to list the songs and dance tunes of the soundtrack that are integral to the story.
That scene where Jennifer Lopez dances a modern tango with Richard Gere ...... what IS that song/tango they danced to? It is fantastic! It, itself, is the drama of the moment. But how are we to know its name?