"The fickleness of modern relationship is under a typically Gallic vivisection by Mimouni. Cassel, suited up nattily to play a white collar, cannot erase his thuggish glint which is pertinent to underscore Max's Lothario alter ego, who can hardly say no to a harmless hanky-panky. Ultimately, when the lid is blown off, the crucial choice he makes attests that man, unlike the opposite sex, is more prone to be the object of other's desire than to chase what he truly desires. As for Bohringer's Alice, her final decision is also counter to one's expectancy. Once her craving is consummated, and she winds up as the winner, that puts paid to her infatuation and she can move on with a benevolent smile. Only Lisa, a breakout role for Bellucci, the paragon of a luscious conquest, is too perfect to obtain by a mundane being, destruction is Mimouni's sinister machination for her."
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