One More Kiss
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Movie Reviews of One More Kiss
Movie Review: movie & packaging
Summary: 5 Stars
A keeper and have watched it three times. Will share with family & friends.
Extremely well-packed and in perfect shape.
Movie Review: Love Gerard
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are a Gerard Butler fan than this movie is for you. He made it in his earlier years but I enjoyed it.Movie Review: Wonderful!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is proof that if you give Gerard Butler a good script he can work his magic! It's a great movie!Movie Review: Lovely, intense little drama... Less than ideal DVD from Hen's Tooth Video
Summary: 4 Stars
I liked this film very much. It's a very intense little drama which will provoke reflection, indignation and much post-viewing discussion, as evidenced by the postings here. What happens when as a fairly successful young woman, you are diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour and given just months to live. What happens when as a happily married man, the first "true love" of your life turns up at the door and tells you she's dying and wants to spend her last days with you? What happens when as a happily married woman, your husband's first love turns up and asks to "borrow" your husband for the last weeks of her life? How these people respond is the story of the film and it is gripping from first to last.
The actions of these characters are far from exemplary but they are believable. These are human beings, not saints. Personally I thought the dying young woman's actions were extremely self-centered, insensitive and selfish. She must have known perfectly well that her actions would wreak havoc on her "true love's" marriage. One's imminent death is not a license to ruin other people's lives. The man's response to her proposition is equally disappointing. When your wife makes it crystal clear that she doesn't want you spending time with your ex-lover, irrespective of whether she's dying or not, you do not blissfully ignore her pleas because you coveniently assume you have a "higher" obligation to a dying friend. It may be old fashioned to point out, but a man's first loyalty should be to his spouse, not his "first love." The wife's reponse was to be expected. My sympathies lay with her from the start. She could and should have tried to be more understanding but how understanding can you be with someone who felt every right to take your spouse away and did not look the least bit sickly to boot. Perhaps if her husband had been more trustworthy she could have exhibited more compassion.
The script is good. The acting is equally good. This is an ensemble movie with an excellent all round cast. Gerard Butler's charm and charisma alone saves his character. I vouch that many ladies who defend the husband's actions do so because they see it as defending Gerard Butler. If a lesser actor had taken on the role, they would have been scathing in their condemnations. Valerie Edmund as the dying woman, Sarah, is just as good in winning our affections while at the same time repelling us with her behaviour. Despite my misgivings over her actions, I found her defiant attitude towards impending death heartening, even heroic. I was moved by her final exhortation, "Don't sleepwalk through life..." ending with its famous Dylan Thomas quotation, "Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Many of the poor ratings for this film come from viewers who are unhappy with the characters' actions. But judging the characters' behaviour and judging the film should be two separate things. I found the characters' conduct less than salutary but I found the film exceptionally good because it was topical, thought-provoking, involving and moving. There are far too few such films being made these days.
Curiously, the film was shot in 2.35:1 widescreen - a very wide aspect ratio usually reserved for Hollywood epics and blockbusters, not for an intimate drama like this. Perhaps the director wanted to showcase the beauty of the Borderland (Scottish Borders). With such a widescreen aspect, Hen's Tooth should have provided an anamorphic transfer (widescreen TV enhancement). Instead they have letterboxed this ultra-widescreen into the standard 4:3 frame leaving viewers with a thin sliver of a ribbon of film to watch. Playback on a newer widescreen TV is less than ideal because it has to be manually magnified resulting in loss of image detail. For a relatively recent film (1998), there is an inordinate amount of white specks appearing on the print. Not enough to mar your enjoyment but irritating nonetheless. Picture quality is as good as you can expect of a non-anamorphic picture (less detail than in an anamorphic transfer). Colours are sufficiently rich and true. Black levels are OK. The Scots accent may be a challenge to some viewers. Unfortunately no subtitles are provided. Aside from the trailer, there are no extras.
Movie Review: Very Thought Provoking. It Makes You Wonder What You Would Do.
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a very good movie that makes a person realize how fragile, short, and precious life really is.
This is the story of Sarah (Valerie Edmond). Sarah moved from Scotland to New York to persue a business career, leaving behind her father and boyfriend. Years later, Sarah is informed that she has a brain tumor and only has a short amount of time to live. Sarah begins to think back in her life to when she was happiest and decides to return to Scotland. When she returns she reunites with her father, Frank (James Cosmo), and discovers that her childhood boyfriend, Sam (Gerard Butler), is married. Despite this fact, Sarah tells Sam's wife, Charlotte (Valerie Gogan), that she wants to spend the time she has left with her husband. This begins the journey into Sarah's final months where she plans her funeral arrangments (with excitement!), Developes a strong relationship with her father, and falls back in love with Sam.
While I understand the nature of Sarah's intentions of spending time with her childhood friend, I found her to be very selfish and inconsiderate to Charlotte and Sam. There is nothing wrong with her wanting to spend time with Sam, but when things took a turn towards adultry, she should have set boundaries. Sarah consumed Sam's time and did whatever she wanted with him without thinking of Charlotte and her feelings. She also showed lack of care for Sam by becoming so involved with him. By starting a relationship with Sam, she caused Charlotte to leave him and when Sarah dies it leaves Sam with no one.
This was a beautiful movie about life, but I found the victim in the movie to be the antagonist. I felt sorry for both Sam and Charlotte having their relationship shattered by the selfishness of a dying woman. If Sarah wanted to be with Sam so bad, she should have grabbed him up ten years ago when she has the chance. I think Sam was worth a little more than just "The time she had left".