Jude Law... What is it about Jude Law I don't like? I think it might be that only women find him attractive and all men thinks he looks like the kid you'd happily ignore at school. We accept that Pitt, Clooney et al have that sex appeal that make women swoon, but LAW? He's just a....boy, right? And that's where this film fails. Whereas Michael Caine strutted those dark 60's rain-soaked streets in the original with the air of a MAN who really did have every woman in the palm of his hand only to see them all slip though his fingers, Law just doesn't have that gravitas. We don't believe that the womanly Marisa Tommei would sink into deep depression about his ambivalence. Or that Susan Sarandon would have anything more than a one-night with the cheeky young scamp. But hey, what do I know, after all Law is currently dating the pretty Sienna Miller who is one of his conquests in the film. And Law keeps nailing this big Hollywood roles like in 'I Heart Huckabees'... What's it all about indeed.
Review of Alfie
