Someone Like You... (2001)

I usually put high score on the films, so 6 is pretty low score, and I'm telling you this film deserves it.If you pick each actor/actress's works, they are just fine, they did good works. but IMHO somehow they are miscasted. Especially "the combination of the casts" is terrible in this film. For example, Keanu Reeves is a terrible actor alive on the planet, but in the film "Sweet Nobember" Keanu Reeves and Charlie Theron made a miracle, they are so good together and the combination of these two are great, so I liked that film. But in this film "Someone Like You" I didn't feel something special between Ashley Judd and Greg Kinnear or Ashley Judd and Hugh Jackman. It seems to me they just did their job, so even if every single of them did a good job, a whole movie is fail.Also it seems to me the movie is all about girl's feeling. How horrible men treat the girls, and ending of the movie is little too cheesy.But Don't Get Me Wrong. This movie is not terrible at all, some people might even love it. This is just not my thing.

Quirky comedy dealing with love and all sorts of relationships. Men here are depicted as being absolute stinkers and it takes the end, when a man shows compassion to his wife when she miscarries, is a little too much to contend with.Relationships should not be compared with cows. This was the most ridiculous analogy that one could even think of.The best performance here is Hugh Jackman's Eddie Alden. He is a no-nonsense brash type of guy.Didn't anyone notice the following error in the film? Jackman: (Eddie) "My girlfriend works in the emergency room and when someone croaks, she looks at their address. If it's under rent control, we've got it made." Sorry writers, rent control per say went out in 1970 with vacancy decontrol. In other words, when Jackman took possession of the apartment, it was under rent stabilization!Greg Kinnear gives a much too restrained performance in this film. Imagine, telling Ashly Judd to give up her apartment and move with him, and then after she gives notice to her landlord, he reneged.If I wanted more of this film, I could have rented Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice.

Being a hopeless romantic myself I usually go for the ideal romantic comedy (boy meets girl, they fall in love, something happens, they break up, they get back together, they live happily ever after). And even though Someone like you doesn't exactly stick to those guidelines I did enjoy the movie to an extent I was actually surprised of.I found the whole cow theory hysterical and loved Ashley Judd's performance. Hugh Jackman is both sexy and sweet in his role of womanizer/friend.In the end it's a funny movie, with realistic notes.OK, so there are parts in the movie that are predictable! But hey... most romantic comedies ARE predictable and come on now be truthful, that's a reason why we watch them!

The only character of any interest in this film is Eddie. Jane is unsympathetic and self-absorbed and Ray is simply boring. There is no chemistry between the two and you never really understand why they got together in the first place.Without Hugh Jackman's interpretation of Eddie, this film would have absolutely nothing to recommend it, however he manages to take an ostensibly two-dimensional character and lift it up to something real enough to create a connection between the character and the audience that makes you keep watching simply because you want to know more about him. He conveys depth more by his expression than the dialog, although he is also blessed with the best one-liners in the film, which he makes the most of with his dead-pan delivery.Unfortunaly, he is simply not on screen enough to redeem the rest of the film and you are left with the somewhat perplexing question of what he saw in Jane.