A Perfect Man

This movie truly hit home, because it was all about a guy name James (Me). I really didn't realize how much I loved Tia and took her very existence for granted. This was art in motion, the hell with the rest speak on...

It is sad that today's audience always needs to see movies with people getting killed, some T&A, some drugs and bad guys/good guys stories, some mistreatment, rape, abuse, winning over prejudice or physical/ emotional weaknesses.

This movie just takes a slice of a couple's life and makes you wonder if it's the last piece or if they are going to make a new one together.

I really like this movie because it is real. More real than any reality show you might be watching. It's tender and tough, it's sad and hopeful. I like it because it's located in one of my most favorite places: Amsterdam, the picture is beautiful: the directing and filming are great and the acting is impeccable: (As another reviewer wrote) Liev Schreiber is very good, as well as Joelle Carter and Louise Fletcher but the outstanding performance of Jeanne Tripplehorn makes you wonder why we don't see her more often in major productions. Don't get me started with the dog.... How did they get him to play his part so well?

Give this movie a try for the simple reason that it is very well done and tasty. I am sure glad I got to see it.

The movie is meh. Cheating husband, wife fed up, but oh they still love each other - that was never their problem, even though he has slept with anything that moves, but who cares... ... seriously, you can't really care, the people are so unappealing and flawed, and not even in the least interesting, but it's the dog who steals the show.

I love Briards, and Larry (Mahler) is great.

The people have no redeeming properties, and don't deserve the dog. The man uses him as a bargaining chit, the woman doesn't take the dog with her when she leaves, knowing that the man won't walk him/care for him, so to a dog lover like me, either one of them can go straight to hell, and give the dog to me.

Plot

A womanizing husband inadvertently falls back in love with his wife over the phone when she pretends to be another woman.

Cast

Jeanne Tripplehorn and Liev Schreiber are excellent as always, supporting cast? Forgettable.

Verdict

I have an issue with movies where I'm supposed to root for a vile person, I doubly have an issue where I'm watching a supposed love story and they treat each other poorly and it's played out as being fine and they live happily ever after. A Perfect Man is a great example of this, he's a wretched human being who betrays her trust and he's still made out to be a good guy trying to redeem himself. He's a scumbag, undeserving and the story should have ended in the first 10 minutes.

How am I supposed to watch a film like this? Who am I supposed to root for?

Rants

You know the "Girls like bad boys" cliche, I've seen so much of it through my life, women who are beaten and cheated on but make excuses for their spouses and stay with them. I knew one woman who during her 9 year relationship she found out about a dozen different women and was put in hospital 5 times including one that resulted in her having re-constructive surgery! Did she leave him? No. Wanna know how that 9 year relationship ended? At his hands. I'll never understand why women stay with abusive or cheating partners and this movie glamorizes this foolishness.

The Good

Incredible cast

The Bad

Concept is appalling.

I liked the idea of the "reverse" love story. It did an original thing by not going the predictable route.