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Reviews Counted:59
Fresh:15
Rotten:44
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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Like 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.
Top CriticLeaves too many t's double-crossed.
Top CriticIt’s always painful to criticize a filmmaker when they are trying for something different. But this feels like a riff on a popular trend that is no longer quite so popular.
Parkhill, 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.
Top CriticIt eventually crosses that elusive line into absurdity, rendering meaningless, in retrospect, most of everything that went before.
Top CriticImplausibility and banality join forces to turn dot the i into the kind of pretentious, pseudo-clever claptrap that most wanna-be directors get out of their system during film school.
The material is amateur and the movie ultimately forgettable.
... starts off intriguingly but is eventually scuttled on the shoals of plot contrivance.
Parkhill ... proves himself a capable handler of actors (especially with the ludicrously hot Natalia Verbeke), but his narrative could really stand to lose some tinsel.
While Parkhill's filmmaking remains almost hypnotic throughout, the increasingly nonsensical manipulations doom Dot the I to being a deftly made blunder.
Gael Garcia Bernal I think is really becoming a major force as a leading man. He’s very good.
Top Critic[a] gimmicky love triangle...an okay enough exercise, but has no emotional reverb
A gimmicky first-time feature that bears all the unfortunate earmarks of an ambitious but empty directorial vision.
Satisfies and disturbs in just about equal measure.
Top CriticFilled with passion and humor as well as suspense.
Not only strains to connect the dots, but also pretends to be some thoughtful treatise on cinema versus reality. Sadly, it's just a tired bag of tricks.
The revelation of the film is not Bernal but D'Arcy, who loafs from a callow throwaway part into something a heck of a lot more interesting.
Here's something you don't find everyday! An original film superbly acted!
Behind its slick veneer and the glibness of its preposterous premise and dark twists, there's a yawning absence of charm or substance in this London-set love triangle, as well as a lack of chemistry between its three leads.
More polished verbally, but alarmingly unexpressive nonetheless, Bernal appears to have learned one essential trick of the budding movie star: When floundering, flash that irresistible horndog grin.
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