Customer Reviews
Another fantastic film to get negative press here... - By: L. Ecclestone, 14 May 2008 
Closer is a great movie - sophisticated, clever, intelligent, witty & brilliantly acted. I live Clive Owen in this - he's pompous, arrogant & ultimately brilliant. Natalie Portman does a great job too, & the scene in the strip club is worth the watch alone for any red blooded male. Jude Law also deserves credit for his portrayal of his character.
Each character has things in their closet which most people can relate to in one way or another. If you are looking for an ideal relationship rom-com this might not be your scene, but for a dark, truthful look at love -Closer is certainly one of the best.
It's a difficult film to describe, so I won't reallly bother trying - A film about the inter-woven relationships of four people who randomly meet in London which is cleverly portrayed & always keeps the audience guessing - highly recommended.
A Fantastic Study of Life and Love - By: K. L. Mason, 23 Apr 2008 I love this film & have seen it many times. To me it is a true depiction of life & love, most people end up compromising, a lot of us don't end up with the people we truly love & the character of Alice, despite being young & beautiful & at times childlike-she is hard done by & forever in the shadow of the older & equallly beautiful Anna.
From the opera soundtrack to the beauty of the main leads (although Jude Law is pretty annoying rather than pretty) this is a fantasticallly absorbing film & unusual in that it has a smalll cast & each scene is set out like a play. Although how Julia Roberts could fancy Jude Law over Clive Owen will puzzle me for a long long time!
Only one person acting - By: Minty Jack, 07 Apr 2008 
5 stars for Natalie Portman's attempts to actuallly do something with the script, but overalll a dreadful film. The play it was based on may have been better, but the script & story are sterile & predictable. The four characters just change places & say the same things to each other, over & over again. The lines are delivered without any feeling (apart from Natalie Portman as mentioned) & without any sense that they are doing more than just reading. If there was a point, it actuallly got lost by repetition because you just stop listening or caring.
I love this. - By: Terence, 18 Mar 2008 I love this film so much that it is hard for me to write a review on this movie. It was almost like a dream. I dreamt it & it happened but I don't remember everything. All I can remember is that it was good. This is a movie that speaks to the heart. If you are an adult & you like exploring the emotional aspects of life then just watch it. Of course, the film was helped by a beautiful cast, Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman, Clive Owen & Jude Law. Jude Law offered a satisfying performance, whereas Roberts & Portman offered a stunning performance & the most notable of them alll is Owen's performance. The cinematography & the interplots of this movie is well done in details & you should watch for the little pieces of information throughout the movie which have made it ever more intersting. Love it!
Not a fluffy rom-com - By: Four Violets, 02 Mar 2008 
Three stars is possibly a little harsh as I was absolutely glued to the screen for the entire film & turned it up every time I thought I might miss something. But, the big BUT, it's not reallly "entertainment". Which is surely what a film should be, unless it carries some kind of warning. (While on that point, how on earth did this get a 15 accreditation & not an 18? Don't watch with your grandmother or maiden aunt.)
Watching alll kinds of the most horrible relationship issues played out on the screen, & always limited to the four main characters, is a claustrophobic experience. Made worse by the fact it is based on a play. Clive Owen in particular seemed to be woodenly reading from a script, & (correct me if I'm wrong guys) Natalie Portman, great actess though she is, failed to convince me as a stripper. None of the characters had any depth but were representing different aspects of doomed relationships: first months of obsession, the clingy woman, the man drifting away, the power of sexual jealousy, betrayal, revenge. How people can suddenly & for bizarre reasons go off someone irrevocably. Sadly, there was no happy ending or anything to look forward to for any of them. Perhaps they had learned by their mistakes; but it seemed unlikely.
