Something is missing here

Rating: 5/10 (3 July 2006)

I agreed to go and see this with my wife and had high hopes for the film. I have liked Ann Hathaway and Meryl Streep is one of the finest actresses of all time. The acting in this feature is quite good. The technical aspects are superb. The supporting actors are all terrific. The dialogue is often clever. But something is missing, like:
a. any likable character; b. a protagonist that can make even one good decision; c. and most of all, a point.
I know the fans of this film will point out the (warning--spoiler) last minute epiphany of the heroin as evidence that this film has a "moral." But this was an "awakening" that would have occurred to any normal person well into the first reel.
For all of you men who, like me,agreed to go see a "chick flick" with your wife, remind her that, after this, she owes you a good war movie.