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Once I figured out that this was serious, and that viewers are supposed to care about these empty, vapid, narcissistic scumbags, my interest plummeted.

Too bad it wasn't mockumentary. None of the people on screen have even a single redeeming quality. But awful people can be interesting...these awful people are not.

It's impossible for me to understand why we're supposed to be interested in people just because they like expensive things and plastic surgery. I'm at a loss to explain or even understand the appeal of looking in on lives like these.

This movie is simply dismal. The script is among the worst I've ever seen brought even to home video. Just about every scene is an awkward, poorly set up contrivance, the jokes are howlers. And once again we have actors overdoing the stereotype of an Italian-American accent by using a New York accent...in a movie that takes place in Boston.

Everything about this movie was bad, the conversations between the Italian and Italian-American characters being the very worst of it. Not five seconds goes by without a cliché, which almost becomes comforting in its predictability.

For a while I watched this movie just to see if it was as dismal as it seemed when I first tuned in. It was. I went against my rule of always watching movies through to the end, but ended up turning it off. I have no idea how it even ends, and I don't even care.

I guess young people need something to watch, but this was a catastrophe. Both Josh Hartnett and Shannyn Sossamon have talent and screen presence, but the script was embarrassingly bad. I shudder to think anyone took it seriously as true-to-life sounding expressions of sincerity. The hackneyed part of the obnoxious friend whose utterly un-friendlike behavior propels the plot more than the action of the principals makes this a difficult movie to watch. I pat myself on the back for having watched it from beginning to end; It almost feels like kind of a form of religious flagellation I suppose, not too much worse than the one the main character undertook.

It never ceases to amaze me that intelligent studio people read scripts like this one and then green-light them.