The Women "2008"

The Women Review
By Paul Perkins

A Bore Feast With A Big Cast

First off I know this film is a chick flicks film and I am not a chick, but after my divorced I have been likening chick flicks films but this film was a total bore. before I go into details here is some info about the film. Set in New York City's modern whirl of fashion and publishing, "The Women" tells the story of Mary Haines (Meg Ryan), a clothing designer who seems to have it all - a beautiful country home, a rich financier husband, an adorable 11-year-old daughter and a part-time career creating designs for her father's venerable clothing company.

Her best friend, Sylvie Fowler (Annette Bening), leads another enviable life - a happily single editor of a prominent fashion magazine, a possessor of a huge closet of designer clothes and a revered arbiter of taste and style poised on New York's cutting edge. But when Mary's husband enters into an affair with Crystal Allen (Eva Mendes), a sultry 'spritzer girl' lurking behind the Saks Fifth Avenue perfume counter, all hell breaks loose.

The problem with the film is the story there is none granted you know Meg Ryan character is getting cheated on and you don't care because the film makes you don't care. The film drag so much and you wonder when something is going to happen and it take so long for it do finally does. This film is kind of like Waiting to Exhale film but Waiting was a much better film.

To give you an example in one scene Annette bening character is telling Meg Ryan character daughter about the facts of life and when her first time was. See said she remember it was painful and he had star wars bed sheets. how would he had star wars bed sheets the film came out in late 70's. Annette character is the middle 50's so that would make her in 30 something. I called that bad script writing and the Eva Mendes character was nothing new of course she look the hottest like she does in all her films but she did not do a great job in the acting.