McGuigan could have done better with a more energetic lead than Hartnett, who seems to have studied at the Keanu Reeves School of Emotional Expression.
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Wicker Park (2004)
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Reviews Counted:118
Fresh:27
Rotten:91
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Implausible coincidences and an overly convoluted structure make the movie hard to follow or believe.
Theatrical Release:Sep 3, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $12,831,121
Synopsis: In remaking the 1996 French thriller L'APPARTEMENT, director Paul McGuigan transplants the story to the snow-covered Windy City, Chicago. Josh Hartnett is Matthew, a good-looking young man who has... [More]
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Diane Kruger, Matthew Lillard, Rose Byrne
Director: Paul McGuigan
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Reviews for Wicker Park
A film with more unbelievable coincidences than a Henry Fielding novel, more plot holes than a Swiss cheese and populated with the stock characters of that Hollywood world, that cinematic parallel universe.
09/02/04
Top CriticThis American version can’t hold a candle to its French counterpart, which was deeply, eerily resonant where this is only frustrating, a Rubik's Cube, minus its colorful signage.
09/05/04
Weightless, dim-witted treacle.
09/20/04
Sums up everything that's wrong with American remakes of foreign films: it's dumbed down so far, it's just plain dumb.
08/24/04
Oh dear readers run to another theater and don't look back...
09/04/04
The preview audience I saw it with hooted in disbelief at the outrageous bits, then happily dug in to see what would happen next.
09/03/04
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09/11/04
Something, Je ne sais quoi, was lost in translation when the French thriller L’Appartement was remade into this obtuse romantic mystery.
09/16/04
A powerfully compelling film that gains most of its intrigue via the artifice of purposefully withholding information from the moviegoer.
09/05/04
Depends on coincidences so remote and behavior so improbable that they couldn't take place once in a millennium.
09/03/04
Once we understand the principle (if not the details) of the plot, Wicker Park works because the actors invest their scenes with what is, under the circumstances, astonishing emotional realism.
09/03/04
Top CriticTo work, it has to make us feel crazy with love, like Vertigo did. Instead, it often just makes us feel crazy for believing any of it.
09/02/04
Top CriticThe 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.
11/17/06
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05/26/06
Josh Hartnett sleepwalks.
09/02/04
A dull melodrama marked by plot coincidences of staggering stupidity.
09/13/04
'Wicker Park' is so forgettable that I needed to dig up the press kit in order to remember the names of most of the characters less than two hours after seeing it.
09/02/04
Its mood swings jump from erotic thriller to wistful romance, and its final explanatory moments play like a weak comic farce.
09/02/04
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09/03/04
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