One More Kiss
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Movie Reviews of One More Kiss
Movie Review: Choices that alter life---
Summary: 3 Stars
One More Kiss has beautiful cinematography, a lovely score, an interesting premise, and a badly cast role - Sarah (Valerie Edmund).
From our first shot of her on the rooftop with arms outstretched, no matter what the cameraman and director do, they cannot make this into a woman who looks like she is sick, let alone dying. She is too big, strong and healthy. So I cannot feel her pain, sorrow and desparation. In fact, I feel nothing, and that is bad for the role and the movie.
On the other hand, the actress playing the wife, Charlotte (Valerie Gogan) is perfect at showing the panic, resentment and eventual hatred of this interloper in her life. From the very first time she sets eyes on Sarah - in her husband Sams' (Gerard Butler) embrace, even just a friendly one - she is threatened. (As I would have been; confess would YOU come into a room and see your husband with his arms around another woman as just another day at the office?) When Sam introduces them, he even hesitates before he says "my wife." What a slap in the face.
Maybe I'm not seeing the romance in this situation. When Sarah announces she is dying, Sam is nonplused; Charlotte sees trouble. In the real world, right then I would have said, "sorry to hear that and WE will help if WE can. But that's not this movie.
So we have THE LIST for Sam it get through. Which is just a device to be able for Sarah to manipulate Sam into kindling a romance again. And all the singing together, skydiving and kite-flying and lush background music doesn't make it anything but what it is - seduction of another womans husband. Leading to predictable harsh words, fights and tears. But Charlotte loves this man; she hugs his jacket and breathes in his smell; and cries in pain.
Meanwhile, we have brave (?) Sarah planning her funeral down to what will be served at the afterparty! I know this is to show her bravery, but I wanted to tell Sam to run out of that house - he is being manipulated. As is her father. Sarah may not be around much longer, but by God, everyone will remember her! Too harsh? Why does she show up at the restaurant just before Sam is to go meet his wife? Didn't know about the concert? Cummon. His birthday! - she knew. And she didn't care. It was all about her - what she wanted.
And that brings us to the most emotionally satisfying scenes in the film with the most beautiful music - Charlotte in her lovely dress, hair just right, sitting and waiting, waiting, waiting for her love and he never comes. I DO feel HER pain.
Where is Sam? Why getting it on with his other love. Sorry I'm underwhelmed.
The last scenes in the hospital are done well, and Gerry is at his most beautiful and touching. He almost redeems the whole film right there. But not quite, for me at least.
Sarah's father, played by James Cosmo, is very good and the part is to underscore the theme of the film - choices we make that alter life.
Try as I might I just cannot see that the choice to break up your marriage (even if not perfect) for a few weeks of what? bliss? great sex? is worth ruining anothers life and possible your own. The only one who ends satisfied is the interloper who we are to feel sorry for, and I just can't do it.
And, of course, she is gone and I suppose, rests in peace.
Rated 6/10.
Jane
Movie Review: Excellent Acting;Great Scenery;Self Centered Main Character
Summary: 3 Stars
Gerald Butler is one of my favorite actors thus I was very excited about the re-release of this movie. However, the reviews I read about the movie did not paint an accurate picture about this movie. First, I do want to say that the movie was well done, the acting was excellent, it had soothing music, and the scenery was breathtaking. As for the story itself, it was depressing and I did not get sentimental at the end of the movie. Instead I was disgusted. I found the character Sarah an extremely self centered individual. In fact Charlotte summed up my take on things during the argument in the restaurant scene.
Sarah leaves Scotland to pursue her personal dreams in New York City. She leaves behind Sam, someone who has loved her since childhood. without so much as a thought. She returns to Scotland seven years later because she finds out she has an inoperable brain tumor. While she is healthy in New York she does not contact Sam or concern herself with his heartache. Upon returning, she seeks out Sam so that she will have someone in which to spend her last days. She brings with her "a list" of things she wants to do. She doesn't care that Sam is married and she expects the wife to just move over and let her have Sam to do "the list" of things with her.
While Sam may have once believed that Sarah was his "perfect match" that perfect match walked out on him. He chose to move on and make a committment to someone else. Charlotte adores her husband. What bothers me is the fact no one seems to care about her dreams. Charlotte has focused her life around Sam. (I guess that is her misfortune.)
Other reviews talk about how wonderful it is that Sam realizes what is important and he chooses to walk out on a wife he made a committment to and devote all his time to Sarah until she dies. Am I missing something here? All I could think of during this movie was what if I was the wife and not the long lost girlfriend? And I also kept thinking when Sam acted as if the wife was totally unreasonable, what if the situation was reversed? He would not have happily let her spend massive quality time with an exboyfriend! What I found really upsetting was when Charlotte bought the opera tickets for Sam's birthday because opera was a favorite of Sam's and she goes ahead to the theatre to wait for his arrival. The last she hears is that Sam WILL BE THERE. Sarah comes by the restaurant, sees that Sam is dressed to go out, but somehows manuevers him into staying at the restaurant and making a desert with her. Later he meets Sarah at a cottage where they have their "one last kiss". As for the wife, she is left at the opera by herself.
For Gerry fans, he does a wonderful job. But guys, he is playing a role and the guy he plays here broke his wife's heart. If Sam truly could not get over Sarah, he had no right involving Charlotte. How is it fair to her to just be there for Sam when Sarah is not around? And I guess I have a different concept of love than Sarah. I believe if she loved him more than herself, she would not have left him to begin with but once she did, she certainly would not have expected him to walk away from his marriage and spent all his time with her until she was no longer alive.
Movie Review: A Chick Flick (that rattles many a women's cage)
Summary: 3 Stars
Having decided to start a Gerald Butler shelf of DVDs, I thought this would be a good movie to share with my girl/lady friends. Since I personally experienced a cancer scare, and having a life change because of it, I understood why Sarah (the film's heroine) looked up her old flame as her death approached. What surprised me was the anger and condemnation towards Sarah that my friends (married and single) handed me as feedback after viewing this movie.
I liked the film, and encourage gals to buy it and have their female buddies over to view it and check out their reactions. One observation is that this is the only Gerry Butler movie I have seen where he is gently romantic but not sizzling sexy. (In other flicks he reminds this sweet old gray-haired lady of a young Paul Newman.)
What would you do if you were happily married and adored your NICE-GUY husband and one night his terminally ill, first love knocks on the your door and wants to "spend time" with said hubby before she meets the grim reaper?
Movie Review: marriage was over to bein with
Summary: 3 Stars
Woman gets sick, decides to go home and disrupt the lives of those she left behind. It only showed that Sam's married his wife on the rebound. It was not strong enough to deal with this situation. Sam could have commiserated with her, and left it at that. And the one who was dying should have just left the couple alone. i hated the characters involved.
Loved Gerry, as Sam and the actor who played Sarah's father.
Other than that,if I'd been Sam's wife, I would not have gone along with any of his running after the other one. He'd have been gone in no time flat. which was what eventually happened.
Movie Review: Translation, Pleaase
Summary: 3 Stars
Looks like a good movie - maybe - but between the heavy accents and loud background music, I couldn't understand much of what was said. Checked for Sub-titles but there weren't any. Would really have liked to watch the whole movie but gave up after the first half hour of hearing/understanding 1 word in 100.