Tony Bill's film 'Untamed Heart' is a hugely annoying, kooky-girl-saves-social-misfit type romance. Christian Slater, playing the aforementioned misfit, gives a hugely romanticised performance that bears no relationship whatsoever to the real natures of people who have been unable to develop normal social skills; even so, no girl wants to live with a weirdo forever so from the moment it's mentioned that he has a weak heart, you just know that there's a soft and weepy get-out clause waiting at the end. The film is also coy in avoiding any sex scenes, even though for once these might have been interesting had the writer had the nerve to script them (instead, he blithely implies that everything is just wonderful). If you close your eyes (which is quite easy to do while viewing this boring movie), it's just about affecting; but never for a moment true to life.
Review of Untamed Heart
