Add your rating See all 1 parent review. Add your rating. Unable to commit to one woman, he breaks a lot of hearts. But then one of his lovers gets pregnant, and he appears to question his life. This film's value as entertainment and illumination is uneven at best.
Now they're divorced, and they make movies separately. The two of them seem to be working through something, as both of their recent films were about the exact same thing -- the comeuppance of what we used to call a cad. This film may have had some therapeutic value for its director. The performances are all top-notch. Each of the women creates a full and complex character, especially Nia Long as the woman Alfie's best friend loves, Susan Sarandon as an older woman as predatory as he is, Marisa Tomei as a single mom, and Sienna Miller as a beauty whose instability is at first a turn-on and then a turn-off.
The film's primary and very significant asset is Law, who's brilliant in the title role. He has to make us almost as charmed by Alfie as the women he goes after, even while he is confiding in us what he is really thinking. Very few actors can make an unsympathetic character so appealing or pull off a role that involves speaking directly to the audience, and Law is constantly ingratiating, fascinating, and even touching.
That is less true, however, of the rest of the film. The movie feels as empty as Alfie's heart. Families can talk about Alfie through time. Have you seen the original Alfie? How have our reactions to womanizing and drinking changed over time, if at all? Do you think Alfie is a positive role model? Can someone be a role model if they make mistakes and then learn from them?
Common Sense Media's unbiased ratings are created by expert reviewers and aren't influenced by the product's creators or by any of our funders, affiliates, or partners. See how we rate. Streaming options powered by JustWatch. Common Sense Media, a nonprofit organization, earns a small affiliate fee from Amazon or iTunes when you use our links to make a purchase. Thank you for your support. Jude Law does a good job filling the shoes of Michael Caine. It also takes a while to get going and contains stronger foul language and sexual references.
The story still packs an emotional punch, however. Reviews Remake all about a new kind of woman. Roger Ebert November 04, In director Charles Shyer's updated version of "Alfie," Jude Law plays a man who is more upmarket, less a predator and more a needy hedonist than Michael Caine's portrayal in the original.
Now streaming on:. Powered by JustWatch. Now playing. The Road Up Nell Minow. Becoming Cousteau Tomris Laffly. Only the Animals Peter Sobczynski. Freeland Tomris Laffly. Film Credits. Latest blog posts. When once he is dealt a similar blow by one of the women with whom he has had a tryst he is not quite sure how to deal with it and becomes painfully aware of his own conduct. The film was originally made in , with Michael Caine in the title role.
Directed by Charles Shyer. We hear moaning, and then see a woman bobbing on top of a man in the back of a limousine; the man's shirt is open exposing his bare chest and the woman is wearing a tiny bra and short skirt bare thighs, bare abdomen and cleavage are evident and they kiss. A woman dances seductively, a man watches her, they dance together, they kiss, they lie back on a pool table and continue kissing, he unzips her top, he kisses her neck and she unbuckles his pants.
A man and a woman kiss, he kisses her bare shoulder, they go to her bedroom, and she removes her top we see flesh but she is out of focus. A man sits up bare-chested and two women sit up they have presumably been performing oral sex on him ; the two women then kiss each other.
A man and a woman kiss passionately. Two women kiss each other while a man watches them. A man and a woman sit in a bathtub together we see bare shoulders and we understand that they have been trying to have sex. A man and a woman kiss, he picks her up and we see her hips and the top of her thong underpants, and she wears a low-cut sweater that reveals cleavage.
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