Touches You

Just perfect...

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

Emma Kurtzman and Adam Franklin, who initially met over an awkward encounter as teenagers, and then again multiple times over the years, never managed to stay connected. Flash forward to present day Los Angeles where she's a doctor and he's a TV production assistant, only this time they engage in a casual sexual relationship and make a pact to keep it from developing into anything other than that...which naturally leads to complications. Portman and Kutcher are likable enough, and the premise creates all sorts of comic possibilities, but there aren't as many laughs as there should be, too many addlebrained supporting characters, and too many unnecessary and distracting subplots that take away from the central theme of the film. **

No plot, no script , no suspense , very boring, just pointless. I respect other's opinion who liked the movie , but in my opinion the film has nothing interesting

It is interesting, to this reviewer, how the IMDb membership tends to sometimes voice concerns that the mainstream reviewers miss or overlook.The mainstream critics (which you check for yourself, link on the title for this film) either felt that the script worked and produced an entertaining movie -- or that the script failed, and the movie lacked punch.Almost universally, however, Ms. Portman's performance was praised. Some felt, in fact, that it carried the entire movie (Kutcher's career, like that former romantic lead Freddie Prinze, tends to veer more toward "straight man" ie, as merely the "sparkplug" for whomever he is playing against.) Here on IMDb however I find reviews that go further than the mainstream critics, and actually seemed annoyed at Ms. Portman for taking the role in the first place...? As if the role (or the movie, or the script) was beneath her? In the opinion of this reviewer, Ms. Portman 'is' the movie. The script is OK -- perhaps with some excellent moments here and there, both verbal and slapstick -- and the co-stars are also merely OK.But it is the comic timing and willingness of Ms. Portman to throw herself 100% into such an initially weak character ... and the make that character stronger and more interesting than the scriptwriter ever imagined. This is what carries the film, and this is what holds it together and makes it work.I will add to this review the same remark I penned recently in another review of a so-called "High Concept" Hollywood comedy -- Ghost Town 2008 --- namely that, at the end of the day, when this film goes into the great digital archive and becomes available to viewers of the future (as in, two generations from now or more), the sneers from today's viewers will fade away and be replaced by the observation that, like Tea Leoni, Ms. Portman simply did not do enough films to satisfy her fans.

No really, i've seen overcooked vegetables do a better job.It's flat, not funny, but most of all disappointing. The plot in IMDb was not convincing, but the cast looked promising so I thought, let's watch. Although each of the lead actors have already proved they can act, this was an awful performance by all of them. No sparkling, no chemistry, nothing. I tried to watch, but after some twenty minutes of hoping, I gave up and zapped through the rest in a few minutes and that was even to much.And about the 6.1, the only excuse I can think of is that a lot of people with absolutely no idea how a romcom should be made, have rated this movie. If only I could rate it negative.