A slick movie with a nice-looking cast and a script that strips away everything that made the original so elusive and involving.
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06/12/04
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Genre: Dramas
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
Reviews for Wicker Park
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
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09/11/04
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02/09/06
Top CriticWeak acting, silly story, and totally incomprehensible.
09/01/04
A very straight translation, with its complex, non-linear structure intact and none of the goofy comedy or lurid embellishments that have found their way into previous Hollywood clones of the genre.
09/02/04
Wooden performances, bad musical choices and one too many twists kill the good times.
09/01/04
Nothing in the movie is what it appears to be, which is unfortunate since, at the outset at least, what it appears to be is interesting.
09/02/04
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.
09/06/04
Three of the four leads are terrible (but) keen and cunning storytelling makes it possible to see Wicker Park for its strengths despite its tremendous weaknesses.
09/02/04
Oh dear readers run to another theater and don't look back...
09/04/04
Wicker Park, a deeply psychological story about love and obsession, is really a hard film to pin down--but refreshingly enough, that's a good thing
09/03/04
A dull melodrama marked by plot coincidences of staggering stupidity.
09/13/04
This poorly acted romantic thriller is an abysmal mess.
09/02/04
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
An interesting formal exercise: exceedingly hard to swallow, but quietly engrossing...deserves style points for sticking to an unconventional narrative.
09/03/04
The story had no guts and cheated the audience with such insanely coincidental plot twists that made me to fight to stay in my seat.
09/07/04
It’s a sad day indeed when a movie’s most memorable performance belongs to Scooby Doo’s Matthew Lillard.
09/08/04
tricks the audience into deceiving itself before unraveling another set of assumptions by deftly shifting the point of view
09/01/04
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