Average Rating: 4.6/10
Reviews Counted: 59
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 44
dot the i starts out as a standard love triangle, but last minute revelations turn the movie into a gimmick.
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 19
dot the i starts out as a standard love triangle, but last minute revelations turn the movie into a gimmick.
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Young Spanish flamenco dancer Carmen (Natalia Verbeke), who lives in London, is on the verge of marrying Barnaby (James D'Arcy). By happenstance, she meets Kit (Gael Garcia Bernal), a Brazilian actor, the night before her wedding and ends up kissing him. What follows is subterfuge galore (to cover up their budding lust). Better cross a few of those &NFi;t&NFi_;'s, too! Costars Charlie Cox and Tom Hardy. Matthew Parkhill directs.
R, 1 hr. 32 min.
Jan 18, 2003 Wide
Oct 18, 2005
Summit Entertainment
All Critics (66) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (45) | DVD (2)
As much as it tries to be a smart, postmodern indie film, dot the i is pure Hollywood fluff.
Parkhill tries to keep new blood pulsing through the film, but the movie stalls by its third act, where he plays a trick that seems more desperate than fresh.
Take a long, hard look at Parkhill's film, and you'll find too many i's undotted.
While stylishly done, Parkhill's script isn't nearly as clever as he thinks it is, and the sucker punch near the end lacks, well, punch.
Inflicts great pain on the audience by wringing its plot into a bruised and pulpy mass.
Dot the I doesn't suffer from a lack of skill. Rather it becomes a lesson in the pitfalls of moviemaking that runs on cleverness and too little else.
You watch the screen in disbelief and amazement that any aspiring auteur could so willfully undermine his own project this way.
...benefits greatly from the inclusion of a thoroughly unpredictable third-act twist...
Dot the I is okay-ish until it drops one of those Sixth Sense-style plot twists which negates everything that has gone before it into audiences' laps . . .
The term 'terrible' not only describes what happens to the characters, it also describes the brain-numbing sensation of having to sit through this movie.
The movie stops being about [its characters] - and starts being about the ways writer-director Matthew Parkhill can screw with your head.
So in love with its own inventions and convolutions that it ignores all plausibility and audience acceptance.
But despite its trickery, dot the i lacks emotional resonance that would elevate it above the banal.
Latin spirit with a twist - definitely a heady mix, but far too cold to be truly refreshing.
"Dot the I" wants to join the ranks of "Memento" and "The Usual Suspects," films that reward multiple viewings, but it's so ridiculous that it doesn't sustain a first.
Once the effect of the second act's gimmick wears off, you find yourself growing more and more annoyed at the improbability of the entire setup.
A curious mélange that works more often than not.
A weird, pretty film with a dumb script, a skilled cast and a good twist, plus one hot sex scene and one brilliant scene-chew by D'Arcy.
Starts off predictably, then gets interesting towards the end but only slightly interesting. Worth the worth for Gael Garcia Bernal..but that's about it.
September 4, 2006Super Reviewer
In general, to avoid "spoiler reviews," I try to spend most of my time talking specifically about act one and talk in generalities about acts two and three. Act one of Dot the I sucks. We get relatively uninteresting characters, and it is obvious that the film is trying to set up a thriller plot-line, but
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