The story is easy to watch, with good visuals, good acting, interesting dialog, and such.
But I kept watching for some level of understanding and insight, either from the characters, or at least from the filmmakers. But it never came. The characters stumble blindly through a dysfunctional relationship. Until the end, that is, when a feel-good ending is tacked on out of the blue. I would have expected much more with the resources they had to work with.
So what's not to like about Bruce Willis and Michele Pfeiffer ideally mated in a movie? Well, dispite the fact that they are beautiful film stars, they are portrayed as a man and a woman with unfortunately normal problems that hit pretty much on target to myself and my wife (both second marriages).
He is wild eyed and spontaneous, she is preoccupied with the car not having wiper fluid. He likes sex with as the mood strikes, she wants to make sure that they haven't forgotten to put tooth fairy quarters under the pillows. I could go on and on, but if you have been in a long term relationship, this will hit you hard somewhere, because even the beautiful people with lots of money have pretty much the exact same kind of problems keeping things working right, man and woman wise.
Would have been 5 stars with a divorce at the end, but after 90 minutes of fighting, we get a last second syrupy ending. You can feel it coming, but still worth seeing.
Think of the title: "beautiful people act out the fight we just had yesterday".
Recommended for adults only, kids will yawn and newlyweds will remark "this could never happen to us".
