If you find dense, self-conscious mystification decorated with all kinds of fashionable postmodern gimmicks more than a bit annoying, best to look elsewhere.
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04/23/05
Dot the I (2005)
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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.
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Romance, Music (General), World Music
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
Reviews for Dot the I
Even when you don't believe what Bernal and the effervescent Verbeke are doing, it's fun to watch them do it.
04/21/05
Inflicts great pain on the audience by wringing its plot into a bruised and pulpy mass.
04/21/05
the film becomes entirely meta-fictional and I simply gave up caring
04/16/05
Cross 'Dot The I' off your viewing list...crosses the boundary of implausibility so often and so blatantly that it winds up being absolutely laughable.
04/16/05
Dot the I doesn't suffer from a lack of skill. Rather it becomes a lesson in the pitfalls of moviemaking that runs on cleverness and too little else.
04/15/05
It plays like the last paragraph of one of those Encyclopedia Brown stories, where the solution is an unknown twin brother or the wrong-sized footprint.
04/15/05
Dark, funny, quite a thriller... It's a forgettable title (that doesn't work in English), but you won't forget the wicked fun of the movie.
04/15/05
Parkhill flips on the plot twist machine, and Dot the I becomes excruciatingly ridiculous in a multitude of ways.
04/14/05
The movie not only scatters undotted Is and uncrossed Ts in its wake, but unsquared circles, unfactored primes, unrisen souffles and unconsummated consummations.
04/14/05
Top CriticLet me know if you figure it out.
04/14/05
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04/02/05
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04/02/05
At times it's a romantic comedy, at others it's a dark thriller, and sometimes it's a mangled crash of elements.
04/01/05
The film is firmly mired in self-referential purgatory.
04/01/05
If Dot the i, the directorial debut of Matthew Parkhill (who also wrote the screenplay), has a crass visual flash, it fails to give its characters any credible substance.
04/01/05
Top CriticIts story is painfully simple.
04/01/05
It's a hugely entertaining thriller disguised as a chick flick.
04/01/05
Far too clever for his own good, Parkhill has fashioned a Chinese box of a story where the first twist sets up a second, that one sets up a third, and so on.
04/01/05
Begins as a romantic comedy, turns into romantic thriller, then collapses into a sick and illogical self-reflexive noir. If this sounds even vaguely exciting, I promise it's not.
04/01/05
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