Simply Perfect

Boring

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Leaving the ending to the imagination of the audience is LAZY. If I wanted to use my imagination, I'd imagine a better movie than this. Write an ending. #terrible

In my opinion, this is one of the most emotionally profound Hollywood movies I've seen in years. I watched it few years ago and I still think about it, almost every time I am doing my research for what to watch next. It is a very neat representation of love and infidelity. The triangular connection between emotions, rationality and irrationality is shown in a most simple way. Watching this movie, I felt like I'm watching a European or Iranian cinema. I especially appreciated how the movie ended, telling us that its ending is not as important as the question this movie proclaimed: Emotional or physical infidelity, which one is worse?

Joanna (Keira Knightley) is a writer married to commercial real estate agent Michael Reed (Sam Worthington). She meets his co-worker Laura Nunez (Eva Mendes) at a party and suspects they had an affair during their L.A. business trip. He leaves for Philadelphia with Laura while she encounters her ex Alex Mann (Guillaume Canet). Sandra (Stephanie Romanov) and Truman (Griffin Dunne) are his friends.Sam Worthington is not a compelling actor to me. I never bought a ticket on the Worthington express. I don't find any buy-in with his relationship with Knightley. I'm not invested in them and their struggles hold no tension. It's a lot of talk. It teases a reckoning but it never delivers. It's a truncated movie about a relationship that I'm not sure I care about in the first place.

I saw this with a friend I had not seen in years, so i was "prepared" to like it. However, unfortunately, I came out of the cinema disappointed. Surprisingly(considering "The Jacket"), the problems were more in the writing than the execution.It is safe, hinging on stereotypes and typecasting. I guess, most of the time we can't expect anything more from a directorial debut.Simply put, we have a film about infidelity - physical vs emotional. Within this frame we have two separate stories as allegories for each type, each involving one piece of a married couple we observe for 2 successive nights. It started by an encouraging "shared" parallel recollection of an evening that potentially could have been the "last night", if Massy was bolder and more willing to explore nonlinear narrative. Instead, we see the "last night" on the following day when the parallel narration starts to rely on contrast. This could have worked a little better if not for the fact that the adultery had no life or chemistry....such an oxymoron.The incongruity continues at the end when Keira is committing to a statement while Massy is not. Out of control.It could have been different if Sam's character went to LA, instead of Philly, on the morning after the "last night."2/5 - Safe