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11/19/04
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Alfie (2004)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:15
Rotten:22
Average Rating:5.2/10
Theatrical Release:Nov 5, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $13,351,235
Synopsis: Jude Law stars in this trenchant dramatic-comedy, a remake of the 1966 British counterculture classic that launched the career of Michael Caine. This version is set in New York City and is pumped... [More]
Starring: Jude Law, Marisa Tomei, Susan Sarandon, Sienna Miller
Director: Charles Shyer
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Reviews for Alfie
Top CriticThe original Alfie was as much overrated as the remake is underrated. Split the difference.
11/18/04
Top CriticCharles Shyer (who processed the Parent Trap and Father of the Bride updates) plays coy with most matters sexual—an odd and puritanical approach to a character who molds his entire existence around the procurement and enjoyment of sex.
11/09/04
Top CriticThe question of 'Why?' (more than 'What's it all about?) still lingers where this remake is concerned.
11/07/04
Top CriticHis carefully tousled blond mop? His devilish blue eyes? His oily pickup lines and false promises coated in a cool British ahccent? Please.
11/05/04
Top CriticBack in the mid-1960s, Alfie Elkins was one of the reasons a women's liberation movement was necessary. Today, he's just another bad date with a surplus of personal grooming products.
11/05/04
Top CriticThe new script raises the emotional stakes of the old scenes it retains, cuts plot elements that can't be updated and creates new story lines that are just as effective as those it replaces.
11/05/04
Top CriticThe women Alfie betrays, played by Marisa Tomei, Jane Krakowski, Nia Long and Sienna Miller (Law's offscreen love and an actress of beauty and intelligence), give him so many deserved post-feminist whacks that you almost pity the guy.
11/05/04
Top CriticAlfie is a star in search of a vehicle.
11/05/04
Top CriticLaw tries hard to make his Alfie likable, but he's working against the orchestrations of the narrative and merely comes off as feeble, a one-dimensional Eurotrash jerk with outmoded ideas about women and troubles that don't amount to a hill of beans.
11/05/04
Top CriticThe major difference between the two movies is that Caine's Alfie represented a threatened breed of opportunistic man, while Law's comes off as a typical commitment-challenged bachelor.
11/05/04
Top CriticAlfie is a bore.
11/05/04
Top CriticIt leaves Jude Law hanging out to dry. He looks like the young Michael Caine, he talks straight to the camera like the young Michael Caine, but this time our hunk has got zilch to say.
11/05/04
Top CriticWhat the new Alfie turns out be all about is Jude Law, perfectly cast in the role played by Caine.
11/05/04
Top CriticAlfie begins and ends by asking, 'What’s it all about?' Unfortunately, it’s a question the filmmakers never bother to answer.
11/05/04
Top CriticThanks to a commanding performance by Jude Law and a pleasingly slick application of style, Shyer manages to put some new spin on an old yarn.
11/05/04
Top CriticAlfie is embodied -- quite nicely -- by Jude Law, who is still a cad but more of a lad than Caine ever seemed.
11/05/04
Top CriticThe movie invites us to revel in Alfie's stylishness, and then slaps us on the wrist for reveling in it a little too much.
11/05/04
Top CriticIt's a steep task to consider Alfie anything other than a Vanity Fair pictorial.
11/05/04
Top CriticLaw's best scenes are when he doggedly tries to keep smiling as his lifestyle grows grim and depressing.
11/05/04
Top CriticLatest News for Alfie
September 07, 2006:
Jude Law to Reprise Michael Caine Again in "Sleuth" Remake
He did it in "Alfie," and he'll do it again. Jude Law will star in the remake of the 1972 thriller, "Sleuth," as an adulterous hairdresser opposite Michael... More...
November 02, 2005:
Hoffman & Shyer Sign on for "Less"
Variety reports that director Charles Shyer has been tapped to direct the Dustin Hoffman comedy "Father Knows Less" for New Line. And if you're even a little familiar... More...
August 18, 2005:
In Other News...P. Diddy, Madonna, and Jude Law
Make note, world -- Sean Combs, hip-hop producer, aspiring actor, and professional celeb extraordinaire -- is making a change. As of this month, when the entertainer will... More...
July 18, 2005:
In Other News: Marital Edition...Jude Law, Sandra Bullock, and Frankie Muniz
In Other News is back, with marital highs and lows alike to keep you gossip-mongers happy...starting with "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" star Jude Law, whose... More...
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