As much as it tries to be a smart, postmodern indie film, dot the i is pure Hollywood fluff.
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08/18/05
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Dot the I (2005)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:4
Rotten:19
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: dot the i starts out as a standard love triangle, but last minute revelations turn the movie into a gimmick.
Theatrical Release:Mar 11, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: dot the i, a romantic thriller with a dark comedic twist, stars Gael García Bernal, who shot to fame in AMORES PERROS (Best Actor, Cannes Semaine de la Critique), Natalia Verbeke and James D'Arcy.... [More]
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Natalia Verbeke, James D'Arcy, Charlie Cox
Director: Matthew Parkhill
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Reviews for Dot the I
Top CriticParkhill 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.
06/10/05
Top CriticTake a long, hard look at Parkhill's film, and you'll find too many i's undotted.
05/20/05
Top CriticWhile 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.
04/28/05
Top CriticInflicts great pain on the audience by wringing its plot into a bruised and pulpy mass.
04/21/05
Top CriticDot 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.
04/15/05
Top CriticIt plays like the last paragraph of one of those Encyclopedia Brown stories, where the solution is an unknown twin brother or the wrong-sized footprint.
04/15/05
Top CriticThe movie not only scatters undotted Is and uncrossed Ts in its wake, but unsquared circles, unfactored primes, unrisen souffles and unconsummated consummations.
04/14/05
Top CriticLet me know if you figure it out.
04/14/05
Top CriticIf Dot the i, the directorial debut of Matthew Parkhill (who also wrote the screenplay), has a crass visual flash, it fails to give its characters any credible substance.
04/01/05
Top CriticIts story is painfully simple.
04/01/05
Top CriticIt's a hugely entertaining thriller disguised as a chick flick.
04/01/05
Top CriticFar too clever for his own good, Parkhill has fashioned a Chinese box of a story where the first twist sets up a second, that one sets up a third, and so on.
04/01/05
Top CriticBegins as a romantic comedy, turns into romantic thriller, then collapses into a sick and illogical self-reflexive noir. If this sounds even vaguely exciting, I promise it's not.
04/01/05
Top CriticLike the fire trucks that can't quite reach the burning building, there are a lot of good ideas racing toward Dot the I, and ... they ... can't ... quite ... get ... there. Besides, the movie is intent on self-immolation.
03/31/05
Top CriticLeaves too many t's double-crossed.
03/30/05
Top CriticParkhill, far too eager to wow them in the end, has crafted a twist-is-everything scenario, evincing a sub-Mamet level of concern for plot holes or audience satisfaction.
03/29/05
Top CriticIt eventually crosses that elusive line into absurdity, rendering meaningless, in retrospect, most of everything that went before.
03/25/05
Top CriticGael Garcia Bernal I think is really becoming a major force as a leading man. He’s very good.
03/21/05
Top CriticA gimmicky first-time feature that bears all the unfortunate earmarks of an ambitious but empty directorial vision.
03/18/05
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