Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

slightlymad22 Any movie where a man is not wanting to have sex with the gorgeous Jennifer Aniston, when she is laid on a bed wearing Victoria's Secret's finest certainly takes some believing. Plot In A Paragaph: A look at the love life of Mickey (Edward Burns) and Francis (Mike McGlone), two Irish/American brothers. Mickey is a New York City blue-collared taxi driver, unhappy over losing Heather (Cameron Diaz), his ex-fiancée when she cheated on him. Francis is a fancy Dan Wall Street stock investor, who unknown to his wife, Renee (Jennifer Aniston), is having an affair with Heather. The lasting impression of this movie was the scene were Aniston is trying to seduce her uninterested husband. She looks fantastic.Whilst watchable, this movie certainly takes some believing. It's entertaining, but it's not as clever as it seems to think it is. John Mahoney steals the movie for me (Yes even away from Aniston in THAT scene) he is superb, Amanda Peet and Frank Vincent are both good, as was Maxine Bahns as Hope.

SnoopyStyle Mickey Fitzpatrick (Edward Burns) drives a cab in NYC. His brother Francis (Michael McGlone) is working Wall Street making loads of money. His father (John Mahoney) and brother is worried about him since the 'hairy ass' incident where he finds his fiancée Heather (Cameron Diaz) with a guy on his apartment floor. Mickey picks up a fare named Hope (Maxine Bahns) who he ends up marrying impulsively after only a few days. Francis is in an unhappy marriage with Renee (Jennifer Aniston) and cheats with Mickey's ex Heather.Writer/director Edward Burns tries to make a big move up after the success of his indie debut. There are lots of great up and coming actresses. The problem is that he picks his girlfriend as the lead. Other than Aniston, nobody has truly made it big back then but the difference is already foreseeable. There are four future stars and he picks the one that would never make it big. As for the story, it's trying to be talkative, profound and insightful. The most compelling character happens to be the douche brother Francis. He may as well be the actual central character. Maybe if there is a better Hope, Mickey's relationship could be more interesting.

Neil Doyle While I can't say there's any real moral compass to the storyline (with everyone cheating on everyone else), if nothing else EDWARD BURNS can consider himself a Long Island Woody Allen--because the story told in brief vignettes is exactly the sort of tale that Allen likes to spin about ditsy relationships and dysfunctional human beings.It may lack the more subtle wit and dry humor found in some of Allen's works, but it's safe to say that if this had been penned by Allen Hollywood would be jumping all over it with awards.As it is, EDWARD BURNS as the older brother--a cabbie aptly described by another as probably the only English-speaking cab driver in the city of NY--is excellent, even if some of his motivations aren't crystal clear, like the casual decision to go to Paris with his girlfriend when both of them are clearly broke. MIKE McGLONE is fine as his financially solvent but mentally challenged brother who works on Wall Street but is hopelessly in love with a trashy blonde, CAMERON DIAZ, in another one of her bubble-gum roles.None of it rises above the level of a good TV script and the language is pretty salty throughout, dealing as it does with SEX almost exclusively. But Burns directs it at a good pace and it moves briskly to a satisfying conclusion which finds him reunited with his girlfriend after a series of misunderstandings.A pleasant way to spend an hour-and-a-half but don't expect anything great. Burns and McGlone were much better in THE BROTHERS McMULLEN the previous year.

tesalbaum i absolutely adore this movie. it's very cute, and the story line is pretty original. If you're looking for an Oscar-winning, thought-provoking intellectual film, like one other person obviously was, then you're an idiot and you should not have watched this movie in the first place. but Ed Burns is a very witty actor and I like his style in both acting and directing. quite a cast, too. the character Franny is extremely annoying, and the actor does a wonderful job of personifying the role. the love story is very cute for anyone who likes happy endings w/o tears, a la Elizabethtown. all around, i just love it. it's a great film to sit down to. kudos :)