Wolff rating: NOT BAD
Plot summary: Twentynothing comes to terms with his vast ability to get women into bed vs. his inability to really love someone. Or something like that.
Biased, pithy comments: I originally came across this movie because people kept quoting it in their signature files on posts in forums. The lines had the right level of mystic nonsense that makes philosophy majors so much fun to hang around. Upon watching this movie, I couldn't decide if I liked it or not, largely because the movie itself is ambivalent about whether or not its hero is, in fact, a hero or anti-hero. Logue gives a good performance as the idly predatory Dex. Goodman is stunningly attractive as Syd without being movie-star pretty. There are definitely quoteable quoteables, but I mostly felt uncomfortable about the whole situation---how could anyone see this guy as a hero? How could people mistake Dex's success at basically duping women into sleeping with him as actually *succeeding*? Dex's heroes, Steve McQueen and Steve Austin, who are fictional anyhow, existed in worlds where the sexual reward was distant if not entirely implied (I mean, how many women *were* there in ``The Great Escape?''). I guess we're supposed to realize the disconnect and the fantasy world Dex lives in, but given which quotes were taken, I think the point could be missed. A breezy, unevenly funny film with squirmy moments. Enjoy it at your leisure, or wait for Goodman (either one, the director or her sister (the lead gal)) make another movie.
How many times I have seen it: x1
Starring: Donal Logue, Greer Goodman
Directed by: Jenniphur Goodman