Not enough plot, bad parallel

Rating: 4/10 (17 July 2006)

This movie had potential but lacked in plot. It was certainly obvious what was going to happen from the beginning, however, we watch movies like this to see how the end is reached. A good movie will reach that end in an interesting fashion. This movie, however, did not. At a key point in the movie Andy, the main character, had to choose between furthering her own career and hurting Emily's, her co-worker. This was then later paralleled to Miranda's furthering of her career by hurting Nigel's. This is not parallel in any way. Unlike Nigel's relationship with Miranda, Emily had been nothing but nasty to Andy and Andy therefore owed her nothing. Also, even if Andy chose not to further her own career by going to Paris with Miranda, there's no saying whether or not Miranda would have still left Emily in New York--meaning the outcome could very well have been the same for Emily no matter what. That decision was made into a key decision--while it wasn't a key decision at all. It would have made more sense had Miranda asked Andy to cheat on her completely innocent and likable boyfriend by sleeping with someone else to further her career. Then that would have been a true choice between what's more important in life.