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One of the more clever movies I have seen
The cast was brilliant, Robert Downey Jr is an incredible talent. The first five minutes test you, but after that, the movie is wonderful. Natasha Gregson Wagner has a real knack for comedy, considering this movie was highly improvised, the body language and dialogue was wonderful. This movie is sort of like a play, but if you appreciate true film making as an art, this is a movie not to miss. All three stars were wonderful. This is in my top ten of all time movies.

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Not without weak points
I watched this movie through once and hit play again as soon as the dvd finished spinning back to the main menu. It's been years, if ever, since I did that with any movie. Considering that some of the scenes were obviously filmed when they'd barely had a chance to read through the lines, it says a lot for the successful emotional imagery in this movie.

You've probably seen plot synopses (or will if you scroll down) and seen plenty of zero-star reviews. If you decide to see this movie, be prepared for a few scenes that really do look amateurish. They're beatuifully shot and all the production values are spot-on, but Heather Graham and Natasha Gregson Wagner just aren't those rare gifted actors who can walk in and give a perfect performance after a day or two of rehearsal. Robert Downey *is*, though.

In the scenes with Downey, Graham and Wagner seem to wake up a little bit and show enough assuredness to really hit their lines. All the dialog is interesting -- provocative or funny -- but some of the readings clunk, especially in the early going. But Downey improvises, sings, plays piano, and hits all kinds interesting emotional changes. His soliloquy from Hamlet is so good that you will understand perfectly well why Mel Gibson was willing to mount a production of Hamlet with him at the Taper Forum (L.A.) even though Downey couldn't get insured at the time. And Gibson took a bath on it when Downey got arrested, and all he said to the press was "you should have seen him in readings...good enough to break your heart." Or words to that effect. Man, that would have been a Hamlet to see.

This movie really does its job when it finally gets moving. If you can imagine being in the mood for watching people talk to themselves in the mirror and talk to each other in long, hyper-animated, self-serving sentences, then it's hard to imagine a better movie to suit. Personally, I kinda think the people who hated this movie probably hated Lost in Translation because there "wasn't enough going on" and the characters "didn't hit the town and see all that Tokyo has to offer." Ignore the fact that this movie takes place in New York, and try to picture how you'd feel if you busted somebody for cheating on you, or got busted for cheating on them, and then see this movie and see how their responses measure up.

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What?
This movie was stupid. It had a bad plot. It was very pointless. The only good thing about this movie was Robert Downey Jr's acting which was why I gave it 2 stars. The other 2 were good. But The plot...I'm not even gonna' start with the plot. The whole movie was stupid. I also don't get why this got an NC-17 rating. I don't want any dumb reviewer bad mouthing me just cause I don'get why this movie got an NC-17, I'm just wandering why it got it? It doesn't have any nudity or strong sexualy explicit nude scenes or what ever you call it.
Unless if it was for that scene between Jr and Graham then that is dumb.

Over all if you like dumb comedies go and watch it..

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