Wicker Park (DVD)

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room Wicker Park is a very strange film, to say the least. It is a remake of the 1996 French movie L'Appartement, but sadly has none of the nuance or clever storytelling of that film, and is instead a flat attempt at being esoteric and smart that just seems very jumbled and messy. The cast, particularly Josh Harnett, tries their best, but they can't keep this poorly scripted stinker afloat. The plot darts all over the place at various points in time, but the constant is Matt (Josh Hartnett), a man who is searching for Lisa (Diane Kruger), a woman he fell in love with, but then one day she ...  Read the complete review

I am quite a fickle person when it comes to gorgeous men and movies so when I was in the video shop and saw the very beautiful face of actor Josh Hartnett on the cover of a video I thought immediately I must try this. When I read the back of the box it looked like a bit of a chick flick so I thought even better and took it home to watch. My five star rating gets across what I thought about the film but here I will tell you in more detail why it was so excellent. ----- The Film: The film opens up with some great music from the Stereophonics with Maybe Tomorrow which is a great song and sets the quite confused tone of this movie. The ...  Read the complete review