Trust the Man
Bart Freundlich
David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Billy Crudup
16
What a much better, funnier and more observant this disappointing romantic comedy could have been had the basic notion – men don’t have a clue what women want from a relationship – been properly examined.
Interestingly, it is the male characters – played well by Duchovny and Crudup – who emerge as the more interesting since the two otherwise actresses – Moore and Gyllenhaal – have been left with decidedly unsympathetic roles.
There are some passable snappy Big Apple one-liners on the state of the battle of the sexes but there is a desperate lack of a decently worked plotline.
2/5