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London (2006)

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Reviews Counted: 35 Fresh: 5  Rotten:30 Average Rating: 3.2/10
Rated: R
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Theatrical Release: Feb 10, 2006 Limited
Synopsis:
When Syd (Chris Evans) learns that his ex-girlfriend London (Jessica Biel) is leaving New York without telling him, he responds by impulsively crashing her going away party. Once there fear catches up to him, rather than confront her, he holes up in the bathroom with a pile of cocaine and... [More]
When Syd (Chris Evans) learns that his ex-girlfriend London (Jessica Biel) is leaving New York without telling him, he responds by impulsively crashing her going away party. Once there fear catches up to him, rather than confront her, he holes up in the bathroom with a pile of cocaine and Bateman (Jason Statham), an enigmatic Englishman he just met. As the two engage in a drug-fueled conversation that runs the gamut from entropy to S&M to the meaning of life, Syd struggles to work up the nerve to talk to London before it's too late. Writer-director Hunter Richards' directorial debut, LONDON, is an alternately hilarious and harrowing meditation on life, religion, sex and love, told from the perspective of a young man cast adrift after losing the one thing he cares about. LONDON challenges us to reexamine our most deeply held beliefs. It also offers a window into a generation of affluent young adults born to the excesses of the 1980s and now searching for meaning in their materially full but spiritually bereft lifestyles. --© Samuel Goldwyn Films [Less]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Chris Evans, Jessica Biel, Jason Statham, Isla Fisher, Joy Bryant

Director: Hunter Richards

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May 23, 2006

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Be very afraid.

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04/22/08 05:11 PM
J. R. Jones
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An acting exercise (and not a very interesting one) disguised as a film.

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03/01/07 03:43 AM
Lewis Beale
Film Journal International
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...if you don’t mind watching people who are better looking than you coking up for 90 minutes...

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03/24/06 03:16 AM
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...witless and pointless.

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02/27/06 08:51 PM
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat
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London is a very simple character piece that is not for every taste. I recommend the film, but I fully expect some that see it based on my recommendation will curse my name come the end credits.

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02/27/06 02:40 PM
Jeff Otto
IGN Movies
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While it shouldn't work, it does.

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02/18/06 04:06 AM
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette
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Grating and wildly unpleasant from beginning to end, London is perhaps one of the least entertaining films that I can recall seeing.

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02/18/06 04:06 AM
Peter Sobczynski
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London's pretensions far outstrip its dorm-level contemplation of life's big issues.

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02/16/06 11:51 PM
Nathan Rabin
Onion AV Club
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You should avoid it like a bad case of whooping cough.

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02/16/06 03:16 AM
Richard Roeper
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It's not so interesting to watch people on cocaine babble back and forth at each other.

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02/15/06 02:20 PM
Gregory Kirschling
Entertainment Weekly
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'You are so annoying!' our hero screams in the heroine's face, halfway through London. 'You are 10 times more annoying than me!' our heroine quickly answers. They're both right.

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02/14/06 01:03 PM
Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
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I've seen more ferocious, and entertaining, spectacles at Raffi concerts.

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02/11/06 07:58 PM
Chris Cabin
Filmcritic.com
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The only thing more tedious than stoned people philosophizing about the existence of God is boys who can't bring themselves to say 'I love you.'

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02/11/06 04:00 AM
Brill Bundy
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The title refers to the name of one of a grouping of some of the most numbingly self-absorbed and obnoxious characters ever assembled in a single film.

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02/10/06 06:48 PM
Michael Rechtshaffen
Hollywood Reporter
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[The] script is so free of genuine insight into his beautiful but childish characters that it's hard to work up any sympathy for their shallow, juvenile problems.

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02/10/06 02:37 PM
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy spends hours in a bathroom snorting a mother lode of cocaine while annoying everyone within earshot with his tales of woe. Sounds like a great idea for a movie. Let's do it!

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02/10/06 02:36 PM
Neva Chonin
San Francisco Chronicle
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Let's hope this movie hasn't come out too early in the year to be remembered for a well-deserved Razzie.

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02/10/06 02:35 PM
Timothy Knight
Reel.com
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London has nothing to do with London. It has nothing to do with anything, except the same heavy-breathing preppy Walter Mitty fantasy that drove A Million Little Pieces.

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02/10/06 02:34 PM
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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Don't you hate it when you're holed up in a bathroom with two egocentric guys snorting coke and kibitzing about the meaning of life and their failing love lives? Me, too.

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02/10/06 02:31 PM
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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Richards mistakes boorishness for drama, and the seemingly tendentious desire to be off-putting succeeds all too well.

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02/10/06 02:30 PM
Kevin Crust
Los Angeles Times
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