The Other Woman (2014)

The Other Woman is a comedic drama that proves there is not anything like a woman scorned. After discovering her boyfriend, Mark, is married, Carly (Cameron Diaz) meets her boyfriend’s wife. While reeling from this encounter, she soon discovers that her boyfriend has yet another mistress and has been playing all of them for fools. Despite their complicated relationship, the trio quickly agree to team up to teach Mark a lesson that he will not forget.

Overall Review Score

0.5 out of 10

Review

The Other Woman is a 2014 romantic comedy that loosely came from an idea generated by the 1996 comedy The First Wives Club. It starts of in a rather clumsily, haphazard and lazy manner that fails to improve. The script suffers from two glaring, and easily avoidable, problems. Firstly, it is full of clichés, which causes what little humour the film has to come across as a haphazard and fundamentally flawed attempt at unoriginal slapstick comedy, thereby sucking the humour out of the film and making its 104-minute run time drag which in-turn makes the audience completely lose interest around the 45-minute mark. Secondly, the film randomly meanders from a romantic revenge comedy to a somewhat serious financial, dodgy investor, escapade without any real reasoning or explanation. Away from the script, the characters feel lifeless and fail to exude any form of real emotion, which makes the actors portraying them, including BAFTA Award winning Cameron Diaz, come across as if they had not read the script, or had any experience of acting before. Overall, the Other Woman is soul-destroying comedy that will anger audiences and leave them wondering what type of hallucinogenic medicine the director, Nick Cassavetes, and writer, Melissa Stack, were on when they wrote / directed it. It lacks all the prerequisites of a successful comedy, namely funny gags and a good cast, and therefore should be avoided at all costs.

Reviewer 1's score & comments:

Score: 0 out of 10

Comments:

The Other Woman is a 104-minute film that might have been a decent comedy, had the actors displayed any kind of acting skills, or if the story had not of been so convoluted and stupid. Simply put, I think that the audience will, like me, spend the first hour of this film hoping it gets better and then spend the remaining time willing something exciting or at least comedic to finally happen. Quite simply put I would recommend viewers avoid this film.

Reviewer 2's score & comments:

Score: 1 out of 10

Comments:

The Other Woman is a rather poignant title for this film, as the film might have worked if it contained a completely different set of cast members. Despite only recently watching the film, I cannot remember a single line or moment from it that made me laugh but can remember multiple scenes that left me shaking my head in disappointment. The cast have about as much on screen chemistry, as a turnip truck does with an overly zealous bacon fanatic, while the script is about as enjoyable as watching paint dry. Overall, the Other Woman is shoddy from the opening scene to the final credits.

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