Just a Kiss (2002)
Average Rating: 4/10
Reviews Counted: 60
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 49
With annoying characters and gimmicks, the romantic comedy Just a Kiss is neither touching nor funny.
Average Rating: 3.7/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 21
With annoying characters and gimmicks, the romantic comedy Just a Kiss is neither touching nor funny.
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Movie Info
They say the heart goes where it will, and six people find theirs following a very complicated road map with a seventh creating some unexpected detours in this dark romantic comedy. Dag (Ron Eldard) is a successful director of television commercials who shares his home with his beautiful girlfriend, Halley (Kyra Sedgwick). Dag, however, has a serious case of roving eye and is given to frequent flings with other women. Halley tries to turn a blind eye to Dag's infidelity, but when she discovers
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Ron Eldard
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Kyra Sedgwick
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Patrick Breen
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Marisa Tomei
Paula -
Marley Shelton
Rebecca -
Taye Diggs
Andre -
Sarita Choudhury
Colleen -
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All Critics (64) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (49) | DVD (6)
What a mess.
Top CriticWinds up feeling like lots of other quirky movies that try to score hipness points with young adults.
A lousy movie that's not merely unwatchable, but also unlistenable.
We have poignancy jostling against farce, thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-liners, and a visual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except, maybe, that it looks neat.
Overembellished to distraction.
For the most part Stevens glides through on some solid performances and witty dialogue.
The cast is appealing but often looks lost, stranded between all of the conflicting directions.
Most of the actors struggle with the clunky dialogue and often look almost as uncomfortable delivering it as you'll feel sitting there watching them do so.
A near-laughless comedy.
Breen's script has deadpan wit, though it becomes a little labored as it goes along.
Can't get enough of libidinous young city dwellers? Try this obscenely bad dark comedy, so crass that it makes Edward Burns' Sidewalks of New York look like Oscar Wilde.
Occasionally amateurishly made but a winsome cast and nice dialogue keeps it going.
The rather unlikable, unsympathetic characters make what is less than 90 minutes seem much, much longer.
An imponderably stilted and self-consciously arty movie.
Just a Kiss is a just a waste.
I'd have to say the star and director are the big problems here.
So pretentious and off-putting, that even without annoying gimmicks and misplaced humor it would be hard to find it anything but irritating.
Can be classified as one of those 'alternate reality' movies... except that it would have worked so much better dealing in only one reality.
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Movie: ID: 16362 Title: Just a Kiss Release Date: 2002-09-27 00:00:00.0 MPAA: 4 Status: 1
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