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Wicker Park review

2004.09.24 — Entertainment | Movies | Movie Reviews | by Samson D Liela

Wicker Park

This reminds me of something. Oh, yeah. Every romance ever. [official site]

Josh Hartnett stumbles into a strange romance, rekindled obsession, and other vaguely-French emotions in Wicker Park. Hartnett plays Matthew, an improbably successful businessman who meets up with the girl who walked out on him years before, and the strange woman who may know something about it.

Newcomer Paul McGuigan directed this remake of a Monica Belucci pic and cast newcomers Diane Kruger and Rose Byrne as the two sides of the coin of femininity: mysterious beauty and heartless, heartless scheming.

Kruger is from Germany, Byrne is from Australia, and Hartnett is from, I think, Mongolia.

This international cast (Kruger is from Germany, Byrne is from Australia, and Hartnett is from, I think, Mongolia) lends flavor to the otherwise weak script by newcomer Brandon Boyce.

It was billed as a Drama, Romance, Thriller....

Well, it was a drama because it didn't make me laugh... so it definitely wasn't a comedy.

It was a weak romance, as it never really developed the love between any of the characters, all the love was at a far distance and you never really felt the passion. As a thriller, forget it. There was no nail-biting, no edge of the seat, no looking at the movie with fingers over the eyes; it was very lame.

Go to any high school and you can find teary-eyed girls with the same story.

The story of obsession was not the typical passionate thriller where someone gets iced—no blood. It was more of a typical stalker high school romance where it basically ended with someone feeling bad about keeping two people apart and love makes you do strange things. Go to any high school, and you can find teary-eyed girls with the same story.

Big whoop... Deal with it. That's life everyday.

There is a lot of flashback stuff mingled with real time, so if you sneeze you could lose where you are in the movie. But director McGuigan did tie everything together as the movie progressed, and it did all come together.

It is your dime, but it would not be a movie with a return visit for me.

Grade: C-

 

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