A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Two young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.I am really hit and miss on Mike Leigh. I love what he is going for with his films, and he is really sort of the godfather of the independent film. His movies have the feel of Jim Jarmusch or early Kevin Smith, but Leigh has been doing the same thing for much, much longer. And yet we never hear much about him (at least not in the States).Andy Serkis saves this film from being completely forgettable. The two leads play characters with some very socially awkward habits. Now, perhaps that is so we can relate to them -- we are all weird in our own way, right? But these two are just too weird... and then comes Serkis, who lives in one of the greatest apartments you will ever see.

Never thought that there could be a Mike Leigh movie that I wouldn't like. But this is one. The thing with Leigh's movies is that the stories are for the biggest part just ordinary people in their ordinary everyday life. And it are the characters that almost make you feel like you are watching a documentary, that make them so special. This story is again a story with nothing much interesting. Two roommates that meet again. Half of the time in real life and the other in sort of flashbacks. But this time the acting is so very much overdone, that it is almost like I'm watching an American comedy, with just the fake laughs in the background missing. Apart from an occasional laugh, I watched it till the end as if I was sitting in the chair at my dentist. Just for old time Mike Leigh's sake.

As a life-long Mike Leigh fan, I first saw CAREER GIRLS on its cinema release a couple of years ago. No, it didn't make quite the same impact as (for example) NAKED or SECRETS AND LIES, but nonetheless it does boast impressive and detailed performances from its lead actors. Katrin Cartlidge's work was always intense and magnetic (I was lucky enough to see her on stage in Theatre de Complicite's MNEMONIC in 1998) - and her recent, tragic death from septicaemia in September 2002, aged 41, was a desperately sad loss to top-notch acting and independent film making.

Throughly enjoyed this movie.Katrin Cartlidge and Linda Steadman are wonderful. The person who played Ricky, Mark Benton, gave a very powerful performance.Thoroughly recommended for people who like gritty human drama.Only downside was the unbelievable co-incidences of bumping into people from their past all in one day in London. It is a mighty big city.