Meryl stooped pretty low in this

Rating: 1/10 (4 January 2007)

And she's the best thing in it too, by a long shot. She was the only reason I watched it, and stopped it and watched it and stopped it, you get the picture, shame there wasn't a picture to see.
Ann Hathaway, Penelope Cruz, Paz Vega, were these triplets separated at birth? Totally interchangeable as actresses down to the simplistic dialogue and the pat script of innocent lost in the big bad cities of the world, interchangeable too.
Andy, the part that Ann Hathaway 'plays' is supposed to be a recent graduate of journalism school but not once did she give the impression of having mastered the English language. "Kinda" was a word she used a lot, the rest of her words had less letters.
The demand for suspension of disbelief was just too much of a burden for this poor viewer to bear. This was a fashion industry running under Lucifer himself. I have worked for some demanding and/or demeaning and/or overbearing bosses but there is always the big option of leaving.
This type of scripting only works in grand opera, broad strokes, stagey gestures, over-reactions but not in a slim little movie like this.
Humanity was occasionally injected into the limp, flaccid script but it was too little and too threadbare. No fleshing out of characters whatsoever - they were all cardboard. What an incredible waste of money.
Save yours.
Avoid.