Customer Reviews
This beautiful film sort of frightens me a bit with its dramatics' - By: Jenny J.J.I., 03 Jul 2007 
Having seen most of Bernal's films, I've grown to like him greatly as an actor, thus explaining my motivation for picking this up. I think this is the first English speaking film Gael has done & that I've seen. On the first scene when he open his mouth I was taking aback because I wasn't use to him speaking English with an English accent to top it alll off. I won't lie it took some getting use too; to me he sounded okay but it wasn't the best.
In this film his character is up for causing some mischief in this romantic thriller. Kit (Gael Bernal) plays a Brazilian immigrant living in London. He works odd jobs until he is provided a most fortunate opportunity. Carmen (Verbeke) moves to London to escape a troublesome past in Spain. Carmen fallls in love with Barnaby (D'Arcy), a local Londoner, who eventuallly proposes marriage. The three end up crossing paths throughout the plot.
Personallly, I find the romantic drama as a genre in dire need of a wake-up calll. Films such as this one, `Closer,' `Unfaithful', `Wicker Park,' & very few others, are daring to attempt something original, whether it be a more frank look at relationships, a less clichéd or sexist view of infidelity, or a new take on the love triangle... & by new I mean new in both this film & `Wicker Park.' Rather than recycle `Shakespeare,' `Jane Austen,' or `An Affair To Remember' for the thousandth time, the director & cast has broke some new ground on this.
The efforts on direction is good, well, that style of combining the footage in film & the one extracted from a camcorder, wasn't reallly good, you will learn near the end of the film that is justified but again, didn't feel neat when you see it. The budget for this film is low; you can easily guess that, especiallly in that Indie Film Festival scene when you realize that you are seeing another indie movie that couldn't make thinks work with its own money, because seriously, that festival looked fake. What I do love is the story, the twists & the characters.
`Dot the I' is a good film that I'd recommend viewing especiallly to alll the Gael Bernal fans.
where did that come from? - By: R. G. Ogden, 22 Nov 2006 
Wow, I did not see that ending coming. What a fascinating movie which twists along the way. This movie simply draws you further & further in. Victims become aggressors & then victims again.
This is a must see movie. The tension slowly mounts as apparent chance meetings become part of living movie. One is left to ponder on what is truth & reality as each character becomes yet another vulnerable participant in the playing out of a calllous film-maker's apparent fantasy. No character escapes a twist in their tale.
The viewer's emotions & sympathies are constantly toyed with until utter disbelief takes over.
The three main actors, Gael Garcia Bernal, James D'Arcy & Natalia Verbeke play their roles with total commitment & belief, each with a different motivation for becoming involved in the reality movie. The scariest aspect is simply that as the general public are increasingly drawn into reality tv shows & their like, this movie opens the question could this happen for real?
Watchable but could have been better - By: , 24 Mar 2006 
Given the mixed reviews from other Amazon viewers, I wasn't entirely sure what to expect, but 'Dot the I' is definitely watchable even if it doesn't quite carry off the ambitious plot twists attempted as well as it could have. The twists do keep you guessing & the ending if unexpected, but the constant hints about Carmen's violent ex-lover fail to materialise into anything sinister as you expect they might. Verbeke & Bernal are excellent as ever, even though the character of Carmen is somewhat of a stereotype (the firey Latin woman) & Bernal is maybe under-used. Some slightly false-sounding dialogue, maybe added to by the unnaturalness of hearing two native Spanish speakers talk to each other in English. Quite enjoyable but not life-changing.
Disappointing - By: , 13 Mar 2006 
A high concept movie full of plot twists & genre confusion. Nothing wrong with the concept. However, the execution (right from the script through to casting & directing) is very weak. It starts out as a romantic comedy, then goes for drama & finallly settles for suspense/horror. The idea is to trick & surprise the audience. Unfortunately the only effect is to make the viewer switch off & not reallly care about the characters. Gael García Bernal is horribly miscast. The 2 stars are for the concept only.
boredtodeath - By: , 05 Mar 2006 
I cannot recommend this film & totallly disagree with the previous reviewers - sorry! To sum up, an unbelievable premise, totallly unsympathetic characters I could not give a damn about, & far too many twists for it's own good. Life is too short to sit through this guys.
