Review of Spread (2009) by Pourya E — 24 Oct 2009

I dont know where this movie was trying to go and I cant decide if this was a drama, a comedy, or a romantic film. I think that it had a little bit of everything and unfortunately it didnt work as any of them. In order for it to be a drama it should have had character develpment, if it wanted to be a comedy it should have been funny, and if it wanted to be a romantic film it should have had some romance in it and not just sex. I think that as the title suggests they just spread every film genre into this movie and the combination was a bad result. Everything in this movie was just bad and didnt seem to work, begginning from the narration by Ashton Kutcher with a voice that didnt seem to fit his part, to the acting by the enitre cast, to the dialogue, and to the story which was unoriginal and plain. The movie didnt seem to go anywhere for the first hour and it only focused on showing a lot of sex scenes. It felt pointless and by the time it actually began to go somewhere my interest was already lost in the film. I didnt really care for any of the characters and couldnt care less to who ended up with who.

Ashton Kutcher plays Nikki, a playboy who lives in Hollywood and who seduces rich girls in order to live off them. Thanks to his looks he has no problem in getting girls and when the movie begins he seduces Anne Heches character, Samantha, who lives in a nice mansion and drives a mercedes. Nikki moves in with Samantha but he continues to go out with other girls and has casual sex with them. When Samantha goes to work, Nikki stays at the pool all day and when she travels he has parties at her house with several hot girls. Sonia Rockwell plays Christina and she is just one more of the girls on Nikkis list that he calls when he has nothing else to do. Another one of the girls is Emily, played by Rachel Blanchard (known for her TV roles in 7th Heaven and Clueless). One day Nikki meets Heather (played by Margarita Levieva who is better know for her role in Adventurland as Lisa P) and he actually falls in love with her. Soon he discovers that she is just like him, she goes out with wealthy men and lives off them, but he really likes this girl and wants things to work out.

I already mentioned that I didnt like Kutchers voice in this movie, it didnt feel natural and the narration didnt work. The only character that I thought was ok was Heather. Margarita Levieva was probably the best thing about this movie and I wish she had more screen time, her chemistry with Kutcher was believable but the movie wasted too much time to get to this point and I had already lost my interest in Nikki or what would happen to him. The best thing about this movie was the ending, it was not your typical Hollywood movie and I am glad it ended the way it did, but it was just too little too late to save the movie.