Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

CONTAINS SPOILERS This film looks good, very clever, good acting. However the message...a woman should just take up with any man she meets, knowing nothing about him...if it goes bad then it's because men are pigs...your only hope is that by going from one to another you will finally chance upon a good one and live happily ever after. Having got that off my chest....let me say the London settings are very cool, the acting, especially Ms Paltrow's, is very good, the concept of parallel, alternative story lines is well presented, without having to explain that to viewers. I enjoyed watching it but as its POV of helpless woman became more and more clear my enjoyment went way down.

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.

this movie contains so much cliché.. incredible. Just because of the interesting idea of showing 2 parallel versions of her life, and the fatality that they come together anyway, i am giving 2 points...and this is actually why I chose to watch this one and give it a chance. Even if the title does not necessarily sound so, it is such a romantic flick.. incredible..Gwyneth paltrow is meant to be super cute, she makes her cutie face as well as her sad sad girl-face all the time, so you just have to feel compassion with her situation... her new lover is more of a sick stalker spider who cathes her in his net, and all the lucky and unlucky situations that occcur in the movie are just so stupid... incredible.. After a couple of minutes of watching, you exactly know what is gonna happen, I only did not expect her to die and the repeating scene in the elevator... everything else is predictable...

I saw this movie in the Crown Casino cinema in Melbourne. I thought I might put in a shameless plug for it because it was a very nice place (no, I am not being paid to say this). The chairs were huge but the cinema was small. Even though it was small the screen was still pretty big, but Sliding Doors is not really a big screen movie as something like Starship Troopers or Armageddon is. The only gripe that I have about the cinema is that in the foyer there are only two places to sit down meaning I had to stand around holding a huge tub of popcorn and a huge cup of coke.Now for the movie. Sliding Doors is unique in the way that it is constructed. A woman is fired from her job because they basically don't like her and have been looking for an excuse to get rid of her. It starts off as a normal movie until she goes to catch the train. In one instance she runs into a little girl and misses the train, and then the movie rewinds and she does not run into the girl and she just catches the train. This one little incident leads off into two completely different strands in her life. The first one she gets home early and discovers her boyfriend sleeping with another woman and she storms out. The second strand, her day goes from bad to worse as she is mugged, goes to hospital and gets back home long after the woman has gone, thus remaining blissfully ignorant.I guess the major theme in this movie is that our personality is developed by the events that happen to us. The women in the two strands have different things happen to them and thus turn out very different. One becomes a successful, self employed business woman who is more capable of standing on her own after she leaves her boyfriend. The second, who remains ignorant to the fact that her boyfriend is having an affair, gives up the life of big business and becomes a waiter and sandwich delivery girl.Another difference is the people that influence the woman's life. The first is stuck with a two timing boyfriend who is more interested in exciting sex than actually encouraging his girlfriend on. As such her life becomes even more dull and drudgery as she works to support a guy that claims to be writing a great novel but is not. In reality she is looking after a guy that is bludging off of her. The second on the other hand, walks out on him and the guy that she meets encourages her constantly to move further. He does not move in with her but visits her for a while and helps her not only to get back onto her feet but to strike out on her own.Sliding Doors is really two movies in one, but they are linked together well enough so that we can see how the strands differ. It may have been missing the train, but what we see is the woman develop in two vastly different ways through the events they go through and the people that they associate with. This is something that is not seen in most movies, but is far more obvious here because we see the same woman living two different lives.Sliding Doors is an alternative movie that is aimed at the mainstream audience. This works well and I enjoyed the movie. I was impressed with the different style of the movie in that it followed the same woman along two different life paths. This, though not being original as a friend of mine has also thought of this plot, makes Sliding Doors stand apart from normal movies.