Foot fault

Rating: 5/10 (19 January 2008)

"Wimbeldon" is a not very good movie about Pete (Paul Bettany), a battler on the mens tennis circuit who comes across women's champ Lizzy (Kirsten Dunst, in her finest role since "Spiderman 2"). They form an immediate spark after a chance meeting at Wimbeldon (I think this is where they got the name of the movie from) and soon begin to fall in love. The relationship does wonders for Pete's game, but messes with Lizzy's. Lizzy's dad (played by Sam Neill) soon interferes and things get tricky.
Their story plays out kinda how you'd expect, but there's a few other annoying story lines that get thrown in that complicate things. Is OK for what it is, but not very interesting. If I had to use a tennis term to summarise, I'd say "foot fault".