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Review: Autumn In New York |
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I figured with such star power in this movie that it should be good, right? Wrong. Gere plays a womanizing pig who falls for a beautiful, younger, yet dying, Ryder. Throughout the film we think that their love has changed him for the better until he sleeps with an ex-girlfriend during a party that both he and Ryder are attending. His reasoning is that if I leave her before she leaves me (dies), then it will less painful for both of us.What he doesn't realize is that this could very well be her last relationship, ever. She takes him back, but we're not given a reason why. Are they really in love or is she desperate to not die alone.I went to this movie expecting to cry my eyes out, but I didn't. The reason I left the theater dry-eyed is because I didn't believe in the love that the two stars were supposed to share. The chemistry between Gere and Ryder was non-existent and the movie suffered for it. When Ryder dies at the end, I didn't have the feeling that Gere would be heartbroken. Instead it seemed to me that in a month or so, he'd be up to his old ways, bedding every woman in New York and forgetting the way Ryder was supposed to have changed his life for the better. I didn't care that she died and I didn't care that he lost his love. In the end all that was lost was my money. |
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