A competent treatment of a dual worlds or dual time lines plot - not as common as you might suspect in the movies although well explored in literature at varying levels of seriousness. Particularly enjoyable for those who lived through London in the Nineties as it rings true for most of those aspects of the setting. However, not entirely successful since, for a mainstream film, it is pretty obscure on the topic of what is really happening. I wonder how many of the audience have noticed that Sliding Doors is very strongly derived from The Double Life Of Veronique? Yet, given that "Veronique" is an "art house" film, and that, just like Sliding Doors, it technically leaves open the fundamental questions about the logic of the parallel worlds, "Veronique" curiously seems much clearer in its treatment of the time slip logic. Paltrow looks terrific and Hannah's lines are genuinely smart and funny.
Review of Sliding Doors
