Wicker Park (2004)
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Reviews Counted: 121
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 93
Implausible coincidences and an overly convoluted structure make the movie hard to follow or believe.
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 25
Implausible coincidences and an overly convoluted structure make the movie hard to follow or believe.
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Movie Info
Directed by Paul McGuigan, Wicker Park follows Chicago businessman Matthew's (Josh Hartnett) return to Windy City life after having dedicated two years of his life to mourning his long lost love Lisa (Diane Kruger), who'd mysteriously vanished from his life. Things are finally looking up again for Matthew; his career is in full swing, and he's thinking of becoming engaged -- that is, until he thinks he's spotted his former lover in a restaurant. Almost immediately, Matthew puts the brakes on his
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Cast
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Josh Hartnett
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Matthew Lillard
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Diane Kruger
Lisa -
Rose Byrne
Alex -
Jessica Paré
Rebecca -
Vlasta Vrana
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All Critics (128) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (93) | DVD (20)
A shapeless mess.
Top CriticI am giving it thumbs up because of a very attractive cast and they do a wonderful job with what they got.
Makes your brain spin in surprising and pleasurable ways.
This film is genuinely interested in getting us inside the heads of its three leads (Matthew, Alex, and Lisa). It wants us to understand, although not necessarily sympathize with, all three of them.
Takes plenty of twists and turns, each so implausible and silly that you have no interest whatsoever in finding out what the next one will be.
McGuigan seems to have invested more in the youth and glamour of his cast than in a plausible and exacting script.
This dopey thriller isn't worth your time.
The filmmakers cannot decide what sort of story they want to tell, and as a result, the story they tell isn't really worth the telling.
Wicker Park frustrates to no end when a smidgen of common sense on anyone's behalf would clear up everything.
A nice example of what happens to a Hitchcock shrine when it's filtered through a slick punk sensibility.
That Wicker Park becomes as engrossing as it does is particularly shocking, given the almost interminable opening hour...
Weightless, dim-witted treacle.
Take a pretty good script, a pretty good Director, and a horrible cast, and what you get is Wicker Park.
High style masks rather than updates what's essentially conventional in the material, and the plot unfolds on a seeming need-to-know basis. It's aggravating.
Something, Je ne sais quoi, was lost in translation when the French thriller L'Appartement was remade into this obtuse romantic mystery.
Deep down, it's a very bad joke.
I usually prefer a film that stays in a logical sequence but Josh Hartnett is a captivating kind of guy who holds your attention throughout the flashback sequences.
A dull melodrama marked by plot coincidences of staggering stupidity.
This process raises an array of questions, some relevant to the central plot and some just irritating.
Being nonlinear means never having to make sense. Without its digressions and flash-forwards, Wicker Park's plot would barely fill two minutes of screen time.
Doesn't lead to much beyond weepy melodrama.
It's a sad day indeed when a movie's most memorable performance belongs to Scooby Doo's Matthew Lillard.
This is a great date movie. Handholding can get quite serious during the film's many intense scenes.
Audience Reviews for Wicker Park
I wasn't really aware of the world around me when this came out but I imagine it was marketed pretty heavily as a typical thriller. In that regard, it's an utter disappointment; the worst that could possibly happen to poor Matthew is being trapped in a moderately uncomfortable corporate marriage. If the stakes don't seem higher, I think that's partially Hartnett's fault, because he just doesn't sell much to me in the scope of this movie. I think that this falls in the same category of film as Enduring Love, where the sum is worth more than its parts and everything seems to gel despite itself. Something you'd watch once, dwell on fondly and never come back to. Which is good, but really, this film could have been better.
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- Matthew: I'm going to China tonight, I'm practically engaged-- do I need to remind you?
- Luke: The lies we tell ourselves.
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- Luke: So she had the same name, same perfume, same shoe size. That's so hot. Or, or maybe that's just creepy.
- Matthew: I think it's a little bit of both, actually.
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- Matthew: Things don't have to be extraordinary to be beautiful. Even the ordinary can be beautiful.
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- Alex: You want a cup of coffee?
- Matthew: Yeah, sure. Thanks.
- Alex: No. No. No. No.
- Alex: He broke all my cups.
- Matthew: That's original.
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- Matthew: I needed you to know.
- Rebecca: Know what? Know what, Matthew? That I'm not the girl who can break your heart?
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- Lisa: Take my picture. I'm feeling beautiful tonight.
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I found this very well done - the filming is quite stylish, the cast really good (maybe with the exception of Matthew Lilliard who I can never quite take seriously, but he plays a bit of a joker as usual anyhow, so I could wear this one). Josh Hartnett very convincing and works really well with Diane Kruger as Lisa - found them both really enthralling here. Quite an erotic film without being overly graphic. Rose Byrne I also found quite sympathetic - won't say too much about her character here!
Above average thriller, nice to look at, and never lags or gets dull. Enjoyed this a lot!