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Title: Subtle Tease That Doesn't Quite Deliver
Review: This is not a terrible movie. At times it captures both marital and sexual tension in subtle ways. However, some of the dialogue is unrealistic (say, when Keira Knightley says to her former lover after two minutes, "Tell me something that counts"), and the film as a whole doesn't have enough substance to fill 95 minutes. I'd think of it as a short story trying to masquerade as a novel. The overall effect is something akin to a tease: Will they be unfaithful, or won't they? The question is fine, but by the end, you don't care that much because the film hasn't revealed any fine nuances beyond what you get in the first 10-15 minutes. Sam Worthington is a little like a statue in heat: You can somehow tell that he wants Eva Mendes, but he's so wooden that he's almost funny.
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