Product: Someone Like You [VHS] (2001)
Rating: 1.0
This movie is terrible.
Someone Like You is an example of a truly horrible movie. The movie is based on a premise that men are like bulls and must move from woman to woman just as bulls move from cow to cow, never staying with the same one. The movie is structured around this theme. The great cast features Ashley Judd as Jane, the woman behind the bull and cow theory. She is jilted by Ray (Greg Kinnear), who moves onto another "cow." She moves in with Eddie ("Hugh Jackman") for financial reasons. She builds her theory around Eddie. Eddie sleeps with and discards women all the time as if they mean nothing to him. In the end Jane and Eddie get together and pronounce they love each other.This movie is horrible because of Eddie. Actually the writers are to blame. It is established early on that Eddie is a womanizer. Then the movie hints at the reason behind this, showing him encountering his old girlfriend at a yoga class. We sense they have a history and that this may have something to do with why Eddie is the way he is. But we never find out why Eddie can't committ to a relationship. Then with a worthless plot point about a miscarriage, Jane supposedly realizes that men aren't the problem, she is. She throws herself at Eddie and we are left wondering why? He's just going to use her like all of the other women he has.This movie needed to show some depth to the characters. Most of this movie made no sense because the characters did some of the dumbest things. Besides, if you do watch this movie, you'll realize how stupid that whole bull and cow theory is. A movie based on a stupid premise cannot be saved when that premise is rejected. How can you take a woman like Jane seriously if she believes all men everywhere are like bulls.