Sweet November (2001)

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   Siskoid

   Keanu and Charlize's second and last film together is Sweet November, a movie that feels like the 90s romcom craze finally running out of steam right there in front if your eyes. Case in point, there's very little reason for the the two characters to get together. The meet-cute just about works - advertising asshole Keanu costs manic pixie girl Charlize her driver's license and she insists on him driving her around, but that premise is quickly abandoned when she invites him into her one-month program to fix his life by living with her all - you got it - November. The fact that they're a couple on Day 1 and that Keanu gets a personality transplant by Day 4 is enough to show this thing is just automatically hitting romcom plot points without earning any of them. Really, there's no way the jerky boy we meet in the first act is the ethical human being worthy of Charlize's love we have by Act 2. The fantasy caters to both genders. For women, it proves you can change that bad boy for the better. Men, for their part, get to believe a beautiful woman will sex you for a month with the promise of no strings attached after that. Trite, reductive and wrong-headed. I don't think we're really invested when the tear-jerker melodrama of the third act hits, so it just comes off as manipulative and tiring. Jason Isaacs as the Scottish transvestite neighbor is probably the best thing here, but hardly enough to warrant a rating uptick. 4 years 5 months ago
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   contrafugal

   Charlize Theron blindfolds Keanu Reeves and they frolic around the bedroom. Not as sexy as first imagined. 12 years 9 months ago
3. 

   daisyaday

   "Love Story" is better. 12 years 2 months ago

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