FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Clinton Yuen I was referred to this movie from a video by spiritualist Teal Swan titled "What are The Akashic Records?" It turns out that the main subject of this movie, that is of a multi-dimensional life and its possibilities, are contain in the Akashic records. Helen, a single public relations professional with a live-in boyfriend named Gerry, gets fired. On her way back home, she is delayed for about a second by a child who steps in front of her as she hurriedly descends down the subway stairway. This causes her to miss the train. In another parallel scenario, the child is moved out of the way and Helen is able to board the train. From this juncture, two parallel and diverse lives of Helen emerge concurrently. In the path where she misses the train, she never finds out that Gerry is cheating on her. In the second path she meets a suitor named James on board, discovers that Gerry is cheating, and dumps him for James. We see both paths weave through Helen's time line with an ongoing suspicious relationship with Gerry on one hand, and a developing relationship with James on the other. Both paths reach a climax at the same physical location, a hospital, with two completely different outcomes. I like this movie because it is an easy to digest dramatization of what in the spiritual world is referred to as controlling one's reality based on how one reacts. Helen could have not gotten fired in which case the two scenarios in the movie would be insignificant. I applaud this movie for tackling a much discussed and pondered subject of multi-dimensional and possible life outcomes that could play out depending on how we react to circumstances.

SnoopyStyle Helen (Gwyneth Paltrow) gets fired from her PR job for taking home all the booze. As she tries to go home, she misses the subway train... then in another storyline, she catches the subway train. The difference leads to two different stories. In one, she goes to the hospital after a purse snatching. She doesn't catch her boyfriend cheating, and her miserable life continues. In the other, she meets talkative James (John Hannah) on the train and finds her boyfriend Gerry (John Lynch) cheating with Lydia (Jeanne Tripplehorn).Written and directed by Peter Howitt, this movie is one gimmick but I'm not sure there is much more than that. His style is competent if somewhat uninspired. Gwyneth is talking with a British accent. John Lynch has no screen presence and his character has the personality of a slug. The stories lack any excitement. John Hannah is quite charming, but the happy storyline doesn't really have enough drama. In the end, I don't care about either road traveled. It's a missed opportunity to write something amazing. It needs somebody with that sensibility like a Charlie Kaufman.

richieandsam SLIDING DOORSThis was better than I expected.The film is about a girl who gets fired from her job… and on the way home as she is walking down to the tube to catch her train a little girl makes her late and she misses her train… but we also see what would happen if she caught the train. It splits her life up and we see both outcomes.The movie is split into 2 story lines… and we alternate between them both throughout the movie. Normally this would be confusing, but the lead character changes her hair in one of the story lines so it is easy to follow. I like the idea of this film. It was really well thought out and really well made. It is an interesting concept… there are always moments in life where we say "what if…", well in this film we don't need to ask. We see both outcomes.This was described to me as a romantic comedy, but the comedy was very little. I laughed out loud once… maybe twice. It is a very entertaining movie, but not that funny. Yes it is romantic which normally makes me think it will be cheesy as hell, but this manages to avoid too much cheese. There are the odd cheesy moment, but nowhere near as much as most romantic movies have.Sliding Doors stars a young Gwyneth Paltrow. She was very good in this film. She seemed to play the role very emotionally. She was very real. John Hannah & John Lynch also star. They both do decent jobs too. My favourite character was John Lynch's best friend… he was always in the pub and laughing at his friends misfortune. He was the funniest character for me. Douglas McFerran was the actor.The story was really good, the acting was good but the comedy was slow. There are some emotions for the characters… anger, sadness, happiness… you really see them all going through the motions and it is fun to see. It is funny to think that the guy from the classic TV show Bread, Peter Howitt, wrote and directed this.I will give this film 7 out of 10."I could never love a Baywatch fan"For more reviews, please like my Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ordinary-Person-Movie- Reviews/456572047728204?ref=hl

HelenMary Unlike most romcoms Sliding Doors has a touch more intelligence, wit and depth. It uses as its pivotal moment how one woman's life splits at the missing or catching of a train and the different consequences of each event. We've all said "what would have happened if..." and this film opens with that premise.The film is average, although there are great performances. I love John Hannah and he's always convincing and steady whatever he plays. Gwyneth Paltrow playing the two parallel life Helens is good, not brilliant, and a little bit flat, but it was perhaps perfect for this role where she goes through quite a bit. John Lynch and Jeanne Tripplehorn (both rather wooden) and a great Zara Turner adding a few laughs as the feisty supportive best friend are the supporting cast. Whilst quite a dark film, there's a fair bit of comedy. Set in a rather sterile looking London (I've never seen the Tube look so perfect), it's an intriguing concept and is executed well, the split easily and not-improbably identified via Helen's change of hair length and colour, and so you follow the two Helen's to the conclusion implying that - like all love stories - true love (probably) triumphs no matter how bumpy the road. Like time travel films (this is a similar though a different phenomenon) there are possible loopholes that you can talk yourself around to ponder. Sliding Doors is interesting and different, and whilst it's not Shakespeare in Love (my fav Paltrow film) or anything high brow it's good entertainment and greatly thought provoking.