The Shape Of Things

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Quick ship - Perfect Condition, 2008-07-10
Another "out of the ordinary" Hollywood flick. Rachel Weisz is a killer in her role, which is certainly not one I would expect to see her play. A bit dark, but great directing and acting. Worth watching more than once.

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Ok - not as good as In the Company of Men, 2008-02-17
Not a bad film, but not as profound as it is trying to be. Compared to the directors earlier work (In the Company of Men), this film is a bit of a disappointment. Still, the film does have its moments, and a couple of funny scenes. Eh. There's better stuff out there.

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Gets where it was going, 2007-12-01
Weisz holds this together. It gets too talky at times but is nicely shot and paced pretty well. The ending is a nice nasty surprise. A little too bitchy for my taste but it does what it sets out to do, with a fair bit of aplomb and style. br /Solid comedy of modern manners full of acerbic edginess, brought from stage to screen pretty decently.

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Remember most reviews...., 2007-07-11
..on amazon are overweighted in the positive direction. Always subtract at least one star to allow for the over representation of film students who generally seem to rate pretentious schlock very highly. br / br /SoT gives an excellent depiction of a psychopathic woman who uses her position as a graduate art student to destroy an unsuspecting fairly decent guy. Whether that was the intention of the filmmaker I can't say. I wasn't interested enough to watch it again with the commentary track. br / br /However the movie has one big inherent flaw.... it doesn't end. It cops out and leaves the viewer with the plot unresolved. So it is a play in two acts and as Shakespeare so amply showed us a good play is in three acts. br / br /Maybe the director couldn't come up with an ending and so left it this way hoping that the viewers would do like so many viewers do and make excuses for his incompetence for him. I don't blame him. It works pretty well. Look how many people here he fooled.

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thought provoking, 2007-06-24
I knew nothing of this movie and didn't expect to like it, but I found it interesting. Once I became interested in the unusual pairing of Rachel Weisz and Paul Rudd, I had to watch the whole thing through. br /There's a very sinister suprise ending that made me say...HOW COULD SHE DO THAT? Check it out, it's not too bad! br /