Average Rating: 4.1/10
Reviews Counted: 40
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 34
Despite the best efforts of a talented cast, The Other Man is talky, witless, and tension-free.
Average Rating: 3.5/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 15
Despite the best efforts of a talented cast, The Other Man is talky, witless, and tension-free.
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A man (Liam Neeson) travels to Milan in hopes of tracking down his missing wife (Laura Linney), only to discover that she was leading a secret life after crossing paths with her handsome lover (Antonio Banderas). Devastated and enraged, the husband begins plotting his ultimate revenge. Adapted from Bernhard Schlink's novel of the same name. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Dec 3, 2008 Wide
Apr 7, 2009
Image Entertainment
All Critics (40) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (34)
Neeson, in particular, has to rumble through the movie behaving in a way consistent with the ending and comes off as far over the top in the process.
The result is B-grade cheese. The only genuine mystery, for me, is why such a fine cast signed on for such a witless movie.
Everyone seems as if they're going through the motions.
Before long, the characters, which director Richard Eyre adapted from a Bernhard Schlink short story, cease to be people and start to become devices.
Despite the gimlet eye of Richard Eyre, former director of England's Royal National Theatre, and the top-echelon talents of an impressive cast, a dreary, disabled disaster called The Other Man drops dead at the starting gate.
Despite the cast, which is very good, you never feel like they're really taking on a life of their own.
A manipulative bore of a film. Liam Neeson is better than this and so are you.
A good character study lost in the haze of bad thriller gimmickry.
Strangely inhospitable, perhaps better appreciated three margaritas into a Sunday afternoon Lifetime film festival than a critical Friday night rental.
Its plotting leans more toward silly, soap opera-ish machinations, and while Banderas is as charming as ever, there are a couple of crucial bits of miscasting.
A turgid tale of adultery among the rich and boring.
It was directed by British theater director Richard Eyre, who knows how to line up the shots but not how to make us feel the compulsive hunger that drives Peter to the brink of a very tidy, stiff-upper-lip breakdown.
A skewed psychological thriller revolving around the many forms of betrayal.
A contrived, poorly crafted, sophomoric and bland thriller that can't even be saved by its stellar cast.
Stagy to a fault, and painfully uneventful, "The Other Man" suffocates from the pitiable writing at hand.
Near the end, Peter issues this verdict on his romantic rival, "Appalling...but also rather wonderful." Applied to the film itself, he's half right.
This drama film is ultimately disappointing and deserving of its relatively low rating because its edit is annoying and telegraphs where it is going. It is about adultery and triangle of love among the husband, wife and her lover. The story is supported by Liam Neeson, Laura Linney and Antonio Banderas, but
September 10, 2009
Super Reviewer
Oppressively, unforgettably awful, The Other Man is the kind of movie that is so desperately self-important that it's stripped of any redeeming sense of fun. If there was even a pulse of life present here, it might have at least vaulted it to so-bad-it's-good status, but I grew too frustrated by its incompetence to
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