pantagruella This is an excellent film if you enjoy watching Christina Ricci walking and talking. She does these things very well and she looks very much like Wednesday Addams would look if she Wednesday had grown up. At one point Christina has her hair pulled back very severely.John Simm is engaging and is inclined to treat Christina Ricci the way she should be treated if she ever came to Leeds. John is also making his mark in the Life of Mars TV series.It's a romantic thriller and I'd guess the plot is not very original. It moves through some sordid aspects of modern life but doesn't wallow in them. John Hurt and Kyle McLachlan are suitably repellent.A good film too for fans of Green Wing.

luetellenripley The story line was little hoakie, more like a re-hash of Paper-Moon( great movie by the way)except without the sex scenes. At any rate the filming of this movie was really intense and very visual. I really enjoyed how all the stories fit together. I would recommend this movie to everyone because it was real with no special affects or any computer imaging. We need more movies like that to not distract us from the actors ability to act. Ms. Ricci is FABULOUS!( I think she is way UNDER-RATED) and MR. John Hurt is one amazing actor. The rest of the cast was pretty good too. For anyone who likes independent films, this is one movie everyone should really take the time to watch with a nice glass of wine.

Harry T. Yung Spoilers The story line of an old con hand and a young protégéé in a cunning scamp must have been used about a million times. Adding a perverted weirdo and a love-sick guy does not help the plot, especially when there is not much plot to begin with. But this movie has style! First, anything British would have an innate attraction, whether you deny it or not, to the English speaking world. Trafalgar square still has its charm. Then, this is not quite a noir comedy, a shade of gray at the most. There are some hilariously funny lines, such as when the mysterious girlfriend has disappeared for a few days, the guy mumbles to himself `Even Jesus comes back after three days, and he is dead!'. The music is groovy (does this word still exist?). Christina Ricci is perfect for the role from head to toe. And Ricci has not been given her fair share of recognition, more recently, in Monster. While Charlize Theron's own efforts alone fully deserves her Oscar, she owes much to having an equally strong Ricci acting opposite her, to make Aileen Wuornos believable. John Hurt's refreshing role of a shady character takes him one step further next year to Owning Mahowny, in which he plays Atlantic City tycoon Victor Foss. Golden Globe winner Kyle MacLachlan (TV series Twin Peaks in 1990) unleashes some of his dark forces in playing the most noirish figure in this movie. Bottom line: an otherwise dull, utterly predictable flick rendered immensely enjoyable by the stylish filmmaking.

George Parker "Miranda", misbilled as a romance/thriller (no thrills in this flick), is really a dark romantic comedy about an enigmatic woman, Miranda (Ricci), who beguiles a male librarian (Simm) with her haunting beauty and mysterious ways. Long on style and short on story, this film spends most of its time with the title character, of course, which Ricci plays well. The film crashes, however, on story as Miranda is really a pain in the a** and not something we, the audience, are inclined to wish on the more likeable Simm character. Meanwhile, bits and pieces of a story are doled out with the dots never really connected at the end making anything beyond the romantic quest little more than window dressing. Recommended for Ricci fans or dark comedy weirdos. (B-)