*Spoilers*This was film was quite promising for about the first half hour and then I found myself crossing my fingers and hoping it would get a lot better, but...it didn't. I found this film be quite bizarre actually. Julia Roberts of course was charming once again in this film about a couple who starred in several films together and then they have a break up. A classic Hollywood scenario that plays both on and off the silver screen. But even Julia's sweet character, (the sister to conceided movie star Gwen Harrison) who seemed a little more real that other screen heriones in recent films couldn't save this one for me. John Cusack was charming and Jones was relativley good but it's like you have these well developed characters (played by fine actors) and you throw them in choppy story where they seem to just float around until something pulls them down for a bit. Like the romance between Roberts and Cusack could had a few more scenes with them getting to know each other a little more. They spend more time apart it seemed than together. Robert's talents, instead were wasted playing second fiddle to Jones' more annoying character. The most difficult thing to sit through however, was the strange part where they're viewing the couple's film at last and it winds up being an idea ripped from the Real World. And all this was contrived by a eccentric director whose work was well respected in Hollywood. It had some good moments, but sorry this one just didn't sit well with me after watching it.
Review of America's Sweethearts
