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Alfie (2004)
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Jude Law, Marisa Tomei, Susan Sarandon, Sienna Miller, Omar Epps
Screenwriter: Elaine Pope, Charles Shyer
Producer: Elaine Pope, Charles Shyer
Composer: Mick Jagger, David A. Stewart
DVD Info
Release:
Mar 3, 2006
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Widescreen - 16.9
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary - 1.
- 2.
- Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
- Featurettes - 1.
- 2.
- 3.
- 4.
- 5.
- Deleted Scenes
Interactive Features:
- Interactive Menus
- Scene Access
Text/Image Galleries:
- Production Notes
- Script
- Storyboard
Reviews
Jude Law plays the limousine taxi driver like a sex-mad Alan Whicker, whisking us around the hot spots of Manhattan with a sardonic eye on the best places to pick up chicks
While this remake does have a certain charm, it's also fundamentally, fatally flawed.
Like its hero, the film looks good but can't commit, talks the talk but has nothing to say.
Law, though lacking the more rugged masculinity and raw sensuality of Caine's alluring Alfie, gets by here on sheer sexual enthusiasm and that unmistakable ready-for-duty party animal mentality.
...Alfie - when you get right down to it - isn't a terribly likable character, something that certainly makes it difficult to actually care about his fate.
So, what's it all about? Is it still for the moment we live?
...what we have here is a good old-fashioned exploitation flick disguised as high art.
When Caine saw symbols of mortality, they were glimpsed from the corner of the eye and largely ignored. When Law sees them, he stares, ruminates, falls apart.
[Law's] timeless good looks and effortless charisma make him the kind of leading man that Hollywood would produce from genetic experiments if they could.
It’s tough to warm to a guy who doesn’t give a damn about anyone but himself, particularly when you’re supposed to be his closest confidante.
It’s like a fine cover of a classic song - familiar yet refreshingly different.
While it's hard to replicate the pathos of the original, the very handsome Jude Law makes the remake eminently watchable.
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