Too shapeless and unplotted; and Mangan’s not-too-ruffled rueful affability hails more from sitcom land.
Comment
09/07/07
Someone Else (2006)
50 %
Reviews Counted: 6 Fresh: 3 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 5/10
Rated: 15
Theatrical Release: 07-09-2007
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A muzak rendition of Take That's 'Back For Good' plays over the montage that ends the film. It seems a fittingly empty conclusion to a story that never really engages with its audience.
09/07/07
Top Critic
Someone Else is the top end of indie filmmaking, with a polished script and even shinier cinematography from Trevor Forrest, but it's low-key enough not to verge onto Richard Curtis territory.
09/07/07
Top Critic
Performances and script are both first-rate, but what really rivets is how scarily /familiar/ it all feels, from the listless rebound romances to the forced insularity of post-breakup bachelorhood. Superb stuff.
09/07/07
Debut writer-director Col Spector draws out richly detailed performances, particularly from Mangan, and the script is bursting with all-too-familiar break-up clichés that can only have been drawn from bitter experience.
09/07/07
Spector, who’s a fluid, straightforward director, resists the crutch of music until the final scene when he goes and blows it all by playing something stupid like… a Gary Barlow song.
09/07/07
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