Positive - Barcelona, Rebecca Hall and... a choice

Rating: 5/10 (8 December 2008)

Usually I am not too critical on films - every time I find in movie at least something useful and try not to be regretful even if the film doesn't meet all the expectations. Though that time film really didn't give as much as I hoped. It was bit monotonous and even boring. And too simple. Movie authors didn't surprise at all. Unfortunately only 5/10. Maybe the reason of disappointment was extremely positive reviews and ratings of film that I checked before watching it. :) But let's speak about some positive things, too. Firstly, Barcelona as a venue with its nice cultural places was exotic, attractant and very different of the most cases - it's wearily every time to see almost only big and modern US cities in films. Secondly, Rebecca Hall was just brilliant - in my opinion her performance was brighter then more known Johansson and Cruz. And finally film provides many options how to perceive relations in our lives - it doesn't enforce any "only-true" point of view, everybody can make his own conclusion. Personally I watched it with Vicky's eyes because she was the one who got most of new experiences and got undeceived.
p.s. Probably females would like this movie more as for me it seemed typical melodrama (just with some deeper psychological aspects, not so "cheep"). p.p.s. It's my first comment on IMDb. Hopefully next time it will be possible to rate movie higher. :)