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This was one of those movies that I caught by accident while flipping through the channels on a lazy Saturday afternoon, and I must say that it was a plesant surprise. Being a single college guy (for now, anyway), I can appreciate both the situations and the humor in this movie. The attractive characteristic of this film is that it does well portraying the lifestyle that any male 25-35 would like to have: Hottie for a girlfriend, making movies, and traveling with the greatest band ever. (Sweet loft apartment, by the way) Dorf does a good job playing an everyday character in a not-so-everyday career with a gorgeous girlfriend. (where did she come from? woo hoo!) Though a little quirky at times, this was a fun and entertaining movie made in that High Fidelity-like male perspective on relationships, full of narratives and quoteable lines

"Relationships like Russian Roulette, or the lottery, depending on how you look at it. Either way, you can't win. "

It captures that swept off your feet feeling that we can all identify with and what it's like to juggle attention between love and life and work and how unbelievably powerful the attraction to a person can be. Good directing, decent editing, better plot, laughed my butt off (get rid of the stupid cat scene). Great film!

Lots of nice minimal jokes. Surreal amusing look at a young Hollywood director's search for the perfect partner. His life falls apart, in an affable way - he's likable. My scratched rental DVD jammed appropriately enough about half way, where there's a turning point. The picture blocked and jittered (almost a technique used in the movie) and ten minutes later the fun began, for me, with the introduction of the gorgeous Kelly Macdonald. If you've ever felt your work or love life's collapsing, and seen the irony of it, you might enjoy this film. It's a sweet story, nothing gruesome or sleazy. Music's minimal and appropriate. No sentimentality - not a trace. Just a nice bloke trying to find love.

I don't understand how people can say that this film wasn't good or lacked depth. The main character wrestles with career challenges, prioritizing work and friendship/love, abortion, etc.

And that's not deep how . . . ?

Secondly the directing was brilliant. The editing was more than interesting, very fluid. Great music and movement from scene to scene was always eye catching. I thought the narrator approach was original. Yeah it's been done before. But this was very tasteful and established a relationship between the audience and Jake.

Steven Dorff and and the beautiful Judith Godreche did an excellent and believable job as characters that I think anyone who's ever been in love could identify with. Or at least been in love and lost that love for whatever reason. The last line of the movie says it all.

So to Phil Joanou for this extremely under rated movie . . . Great job! The movie hit close to home and could not have come at a more appropriate time in my life.

A rather mediocre film, made interesting by good camera techniques and flashy editing. The story drags a lot though, and could have been much better if it were a shorter film. Stephen Dorff puts on a great performance though, and the talking cat is hilarious. Watch it, but be warned that it is not an easy film to understand right away. Subtle themes lie within, so pay attention.

Fine almost-psychedelic-oriented comedy about romance, struggles in art work and just loosing your mind (and finding it back). The meaning of the word tells it all. Dorff offers a great performance. U2's performances in the movie are in the right spots and at the right time. Very experimental yet great results.

Entropy is a must for people who like the first stages of Tarantino, the visual experimentation of Olver Stone and the hilarity of Woody Allen (strange but rather great mix!).

I find it mind blowing that the plot begins with the narrator in an awful shape explaining the story and then gets to meet his own character and the movie goes on!

The ending leaves you with a melancholic feeling because all us who are still attached to this world have experienced the "Entropy" after an intense experience what ever it was.

See you in the journey to forever!