Review of Sliding Doors (1998) by Pete L — 09 Mar 2011
A movie with a great concept and a few good parts but it falls short of being average.
Plot: The film shows two parallel realities. In one a woman steps into a subway train only to go home to find her boyfriend cheating on her. In the other, she misses it, the outcomes of each being vastly different showing that even the smallest thing can have a major effect on your life.
Gwyneth Paltrow is downright gorgeous as a brunette but I felt her British accent was a little too overdone, but it isnt awful. As for the co-stars, John Hannah(The Mummy movies) is pretty good, but I have to say Jeanne Tripplehorn(Big Love) is downright awful. Even though this movie is just over an hour and a half long, I sort of lost intrest about an hour in and that's where I think it all fell apart. I don't want to spoil anything but it goes from being a romantic comedy and then all of a sudden it goes to being a depressing drama. I found that both to be good and bad in a sense. I also found some of the dialouge to be really stupid. What brings this movie down the most is that it falls in with all the other cliched romantic comedies. It's like; "Oh I haven't seen that a million times before." But it still makes me want to move to London though. Total Score: 4.5/10.
This review of Sliding Doors (1998) was written by Pete L on 09 Mar 2011.
Sliding Doors has generally received mixed reviews.
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