I saw this after “A Lot Like Love” with my wife. I really liked A Lot Like Love and I think the part I liked is the romantic part. It is probaly important to remember how much one brings themselves to a movie. The story is not in a vacuum but how it resonates with your own experience and maybe that was the miss. But Kutcher and Peet somehow worked. Neither are actors of the theatre like Streep and Thurman has real talent (Pulp Fiction is remarkable), but the chemistry and backdrop of a Lot Like Love zings.

There is a lot to like here – Uma Thurman and Meryl Streep are very good. But the relationship between Thurman and David Bloomberg just doesn’t make it.

The basic plot of this really works. And I wanted to like it. It is hard to imagine not liking seeing Charlize like this – think Matrix meets Gattica. But somehow, it just never finishes. The sequences are polished and clean but it reminds me of the movies I made in my backyard as a kid – sometimes the effects aren’t the problem, its the stringing together of scenes that don’t really pull the pieces together. Enjoyable just not quite done.