Excellent, smart action film.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Addicted to Love (1997): Dir: Griffin Dunne / Cast: Matthew Broderick, Meg Ryan, Tcheky Karyo, Kelly Preston, Maureen Stapleton: Misprint title spawns only bitterness. Matthew Broderick and Kelly Preston play astronomers who part ways then he discovers that she is dating a French chef named Anton. He spies on them until Meg Ryan shows up as Anton's ex. Ryan's revenge tactics include stashing panties in his apartment to filling squirt guns with perfume. Predictable sitcom setup with painful consequences. Griffin Dunne's directional debut. Broderick is one to identify with as he gains curiosity. He accepts a job at Anton's restaurant in order to learn more about him. Now Broderick faces consequences but Ryan is unsympathetic. It just seems lame that Ryan is painted as a victim when she practically gets away with what Broderick could not. This makes her look pathetic in her forceful nature. Tcheky Karyo does the best as Anton who at one point beams at Broderick, "I am Superman!" At least Anton admits his wrong thus giving him more credibility than the Ryan character. Preston is standard issue and mostly observed. Perhaps had she been subject to some of the shenanigans then her role might have had greater appeal. It zeros in on one's dismay upon relationship tragedy but it also finds humour in revenge resulting in a heinous display of ugliness. Score: 4 / 10

This is a wretched, wrong-headed little waste of celluloid. Do not be deceived by the film's strange sleight of hand, mis-focusing the audience on Broderick and Ryan. This is actually a story about a young woman (Kelly Preston) from America and an immigrant from France (Tcheky Karyo) who meet in New York and fall in love. Preston, raised in a small town, finally spreads her wings and flies away to the big city in pursuit of her dreams. There she meets Karyo, the man of her dreams, who loves America where he has come to achieve his dreams. Sadly the two of them are dogged by their sicko, stalking ex-lovers who conspire to wreak mayhem upon them and turn their dreams into a nightmare.Broderick and Ryan commit heinous crimes, including invasion of privacy (on multiple levels), stalking, and breaking and entering. They are seriously disturbed voyeurs who generate no chemistry and no sympathy. I was touched only by the steady, true love of Preston and Karyo which even overcomes the sinister machinations of Broderick and Ryan. The film attempts to get the audience to identify with the sickos, instead of the true protagonists of this film. Unfortunately, their characters provide no chemistry and nothing with which I could identify. I just felt compassion for the two objects of their demented malevolence.In a comment thread on this film, someone suggested the film's ending was too pat - that there was too much neat "resolution." To the contrary, this film provides too LITTLE resolution. After the twin menaces of Broderick and Ryan finally depart, were Preston and Karyo able to reconstruct their lives of love and security and promise? Or were they forever reduced to penury as a result of Broderick's and Ryan's conspiracy?The acting in this film is pedestrian except for Karyo, who is quite good. Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick never come close to portraying 3-dimensional characters - much less, likable ones - or achieving any on-screen chemistry. This is a pitiful excuse for a romance or a comedy or a romantic comedy.Tragically, this film is about two people from disparate backgrounds who, against all odds meet, fall in love and build a dream life only to have it devastated by two contemptuous criminals from their past. There was nothing funny about two deranged, deluded people utterly destroying the lives of two other people who have found love, happiness and success together in the big city. For me, causing misery in the lives of others is a poor basis for comedy.

The obsessive nature of romantic love, the ardor and persistence of rejected suitors are highly complementary to the intensity of life in Manhattan, the setting. Of course, the setting is also appropriate for the idea of spying through windows. Haven't we all yearned for the love object and ridiculously obsessed about them after failing in romance? The ingenuity of invention displayed by the characters played by Meg Ryan, the more radical of the two, and Matthew Broderick, who appears the more normal one to the mainstream audience, is very amusing. Griffin Dunne showed wonderful taste in directing this movie. It's interesting, witty, and the production values are good.

This is one of the best romantic comedies I have seen in a long time. "Addicted to Love" is unusual, surprising, and - above all - very funny. The acting by all the four main characters is outstanding. I loved the movie because it has all the ingredients of a great romantic comedy with a cute couple and a long find-your-love story, but it adds to it some wit. This is a very fun movie to watch! The fantastic soundtrack makes the movie even better. I bought the soundtrack even before I had seen the movie because I liked listening to it so much in the Munich store where I found it. This truly is romantic comedy at its best. I just have to tell you that again! :-D