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Movie Reviews of Closer (Superbit Edition)
Movie Review: SO GOOD...
Summary: 5 Stars
Not a movie for fans of happy endings.
Not a movie for fans of having everything spelled out for them.
Time changes, characters swamp partners, love is the dirtiest word used.
It is brutal, emotionally draining, funny, and sad. Like some of the best films, "Closer" is a polarizing film.
Julia Roberts gives the performance of her career in this film. There is a scene with Clive Owen, that for my money, is the best acted scene I've seen so far this year. It's the best scene of any in the career of Roberts or Owen.
Roberts is fearless. The movie is full of beginnings and endings, but with her eyes she tells us the entire middle of her character. She is cold, confused, depressed - a lost woman. A woman who wants children. A woman who wants love, but doesn't even know love herself and doesn't realize it when she has it (this goes true for all the characters). Roberts Anna is the most difficult role to play and she nails it.
Clive Owen is a scene stealer, with the showiest role. Will this finally make him a leading man?
Jude Law has shown shades of this character before, but I think this too is his most complete performance. He is the most unlikable, but after the scene with Owen in the office. I liked this guy. I felt sorry for him. I didn't think he was as bad those reviews.
Natalie Portman is sexy, mysterious, vulnerable. But there was something missing from her role. She's adult, but I didn't always buy her having this history. She had shades of this character in "Garden State" and this is a better performance. It's the weakest of the four, for my money.
The limited music is perfect, but the music, slow motion, and distracting extras turned me off from the last scene.
Movie Review: Ain't Talking Bout Love....
Summary: 5 Stars
If you were expecting another cinematic exploration of the beautiful complexities of romantic relationships, you'd be well served to take a raincheck on CLOSER. This film is absolutely scathing as it delves into the sordid state of affairs revolving around the core group of four romantically (for total lack of a better description) linked individuals and leaves behind a rather bloodstained and bleak outlook on love and human nature. Yet, with all that being said, the absolutely transcendent performances from Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman and most notably the near charming ghoulishness of Clive Owen's alpha-male extraordinaire makes this film deceptively engaging. The dialogue isn't going to entice anyone's sweet old grandmother over for a viewing but it is unquestionably complex, humourous, appalling, and even comedic at times. It's akin to watching a train wreck; you know you should force yourself to look away but there's just something too magnetic about watching four beautiful love-challenged characters eviscerate one another with words and actions. It's one kick to the groin after another and an absolutely unflinching exploration of the dark side of destructive relationships and the personalities behind them. This motley crew of lovers has hardly any redeemable qualities about them. Everybody's a cheater, a bold-faced liar or a complete hypocrite at one moment or another. However, without the brilliant readings courtesy of the film's stars, the movie would be little more than couples swearing and doing unspeakable acts to one another. After watching CLOSER, you'll feel wiser, perhaps a little cynical, and hopefully properly-schooled in the art of how not to treat your significant other.
Movie Review: A Dark but Brilliant Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Patrick Marber, the author of the play by the same name wrote the screenplay for Mike Nichols' screen adaption so I assume he's happy with this production. First, Mike Nichols continues to give us one fine movie after another-- from his first THE GRADUATE to his most recent ANGELS IN AMERICA. This film is no exception and is wonderfully filmed-- there are lots of closeups of the characters that we expect from Nichols and certainly appropriate here since the movie essentially is about four individuals who do an awful lot of talking-- when they aren't changing partners and bedrooms. The acting is superb: Julia Roberts as Anna, Jude Law as Dan, Nathalie Portman as Alice and Clive Owen as Larry give tremendous performances. These are beautiful people who are selfish and nasty to everyone they should care about most, i.e., their spouses and/or lovers.
A friend of mine used to say that he didn't care for either fiction or movies if he couldn't like any of the characters. Using that criterion, this movie falls on its face. On the other hand, if you want to see people acting very badly and completely self-centered, then you'll find this movie to your liking.
Alice says it all in a scene near the end of the movie when she finally kicks Dan out of her life, saying something to the effect that he didn't have to be cruel to her by being unfaithful and sleeping with Anna, that all of us should realize that there's a line we shouldn't cross in order to prevent hurting someone we love. With the possible exception of Anna, these people will do whatever it takes to get what they think they want and have no interest in staying within boundries.
A dark, well acted, well directed movie.
Movie Review: UNPRECEDENTED
Summary: 5 Stars
I watched Closer thinking that it was basically going to be a movie about four people who are entwined in one way or another through sex and deception. I was right. But the miraculous thing about this movie is that it is so much more than that. Through most of the movie, there were scenes that made me laugh (Jude Law and Clive Owen pretending to be two people having internet sex), scenes that made my brow furrow with confusion, and scenes that made me cringe because of not only how sexually open this movie was, but also because of how horrible some of these characters were to each other (the Julia Roberts and Clive Owen break up scene is especially memorable in this case). But through it all, its been three days since I saw this movie, and I am still thinking about it in my head, because it is really that profound. Honestly, I give kudos to whoever wrote this script on this movie because it is absolutely beautiful, in a raunchy yet realistic kind of way. The lines these characters have seem confusing, sometimes even out of place, until the end and you really get thinking about all the things they say to each other and what the director is really trying to tell you about life. I'm not a big fan of overly done celebrity powerhouse movies, but Natalie Portman is at the top of her game in this movie and Julia Roberts and Clive Owen are extremely good as well. Jude Law, on the other hand, got on my nerves just a little but is forgivable and finally redeemed in his very last scene (with Portman). If you want a movie that uses the usual hollywood formula of love, then stay far away, but if you want a movie that will make you think and laugh, then by all means, get Closer.Movie Review: Misunderstood
Summary: 5 Stars
I wanted to see this in theatre from the moment I saw the trailer. The very idea of my favorite actress and my favorite up-and-comer was an irresistible combination. However, this usually means that I am setting myself up for failure or disappointment (expecting too much); so I waited anxiously for _Closer's_ release. I have to say first that I was terrified by the reviews and reports of people leaving the theater early and demanding their money back. However, now I that I have seen the movie, I can clearly say that those people either did not pay attention to the movie's subject before deciding to see it, or they left their brains at home that day. The film was excellent. Portman and Owen were brilliant and heartbreaking almost to the point that I would say they were robbed of the Oscars (Portman was, I have not seen MDB yet). Roberts and Law were very good as well, although their parts were not as likeable (on purpose, they were the "bad guys") or intricate as the other two. This is another classic example of how a good supporting cast can make a film, and one of the first films I have seen where it seems that the supporting characters were more important than the leading ones. Anyway, the storyline is simple: tragedy in love, but the ending does provide some absolution, for the likeable characters at least. But it is the acting that will be remembered, the heartbreak in Portman's face, and Julia's sad eyes always begging for an answer or a way out. Owen's forcible way of dealing with things, with simmers of hurt shinning through. If you look through the bad language and zooming narrative, this film will be a gift.