Powerful

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

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

If I had saw this movie when it first came out in 2009, I may think differently about it. It's interesting to me how outdated the movie feels. The story centers around a high price escort doing her job just after the finical crisis of 2007 and the 2008 election. The constant mentioning of these two events makes the conversations feel forced and not natural, which is strange considering the film came out a year after these events, events that we are still going through as I write this. The movie is cluttered and makes no sense. The editing style makes you need to watch it more than once to understand what is going on (I myself watched it twice). The only problem is, I did not find it entertaining enough to even sit through it once.Sasha Grey is not all she's cracked up to be. I've seen pron stars in mainstream movies act better. I've seen her act better in mainstream movies. I guess I should not be so harsh since this was her first mainstream event. It may have been a better idea if Soderbergh at least got better actors for his supporting cast, instead of the dry uninteresting folks that make up this one. A lot of the movie is just conversations and it looks like the actors were picked because of their grasp of the conversation topic, which was about money, rather than their capability to make this topic interesting to someone uninterested in the topic.The movie does feel like a beta test for what would become a string of movies Soderbergh would end up doing after this with the same style to it. Unless your that die hard of a Soderbergh fan I would watch every movie that came after the Girlfriend Experience instead.

oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear Sasha grey maybe great when pretending to enjoy sex with several men at once but I'm afraid this film hinges on her performance and as a novice actor she fails big time. shame i could always see what they were trying to do with the film but the execution was just very "indie". So what were left with is a terrible film with a non ending .The obama election background is pointless the clumsy parallels between the prostitute and the gym instructor were far to obvious to be effective and the film felt like a big giant downer not an informative or beautifully done downer just a dour boring unchallenging tour de force of badness oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear

If you like me, did not notice the director before watching this you will have a much fairer opinion of this garbage.The life of a high class NY escort is presented in past/present cuts which trick you into thinking there is some suspense - this is a huge flaw and I would have certainly given it a higher rating than 1/10 if the film was not so.For someone who earns upwards of 1000$ a night you'd think she would be a good judge of character, or at the very least she would be able to spot someone who is trying to "use" her, well you would be wrong to think that, that particular part of the movie is so bad, that if this were a real call girl, you could pay her with candy corn to sleep with her and she would still give you change back.There are random shots of the streets of NY as if this were a documentary of some sort, they feel so out of place that you're left wondering why they're there, it clearly isn't a documentary.To completely bore you, the movie has a strong political presence too, discussing the upcoming election - all this does is make it feel outdated regardless of when you watch it. Again totally unnecessary, if you really needed to show people worrying about money couldn't you just give them a bad habit Stephen? What on Earth possessed you to include boring dialogue about "the economy"? This is a shrimp cocktail dumped over spaghetti carbonara, except it's made by Gordon Ramsey, so some people are bound to like it even though it tastes awful.

Yes, this film was far from perfect, and I definitely don't give it a 10. However, being that it is actually an homage to certain French New Wave films (Namely Agnes Varda's "Cleo From 5 to 7" and Goddard's "Vivre Sa Vie"), it actually does a pretty good job of doing what it came to do. Unfortunately, this type of thing tends to overestimate the intellect of the American audience, hence the "dull" and "boring" reviews that undoubtedly came from people who find anything with subtitles "lame". Please, guys, if you don't get it, do us all a favor, and stick to what you do get, and don't assume that your ignorance of the subject/style makes it a bad film. More than that, though, remember that just because the internet gives you a forum to speak, that doesn't mean you have to use it. Maybe just go watch "Independence Day" again...