Movie-Alfie

This 2004 remake of the Michael Caine film of the same name is not bad. Starring Jude Law as a fun-loving commitment-phobic womanizer, the film charts a course that shows the consequences of actions...whether they were intended, or whether the actions were carried out with ill-will or just carelessness.

Jude Law is well cast as Alfie, the Brit coming to the Big Apple to get to more women. But life becomes complicated as the women as his fall back girl, Marisa Tomei, stops wanting to play that role in his life. She wants more, and realizes she needs to stop enabling him to use her as he does. So she stops seeing him completely. This certainly throws Alfie for a loop. He also, in a one night stand, sleeps with his best friends girlfriend (Nia Long). It appears there are no repercussions until she turns up pregnant, and he loses both of their friendship in a complicated and yet fairly real storyline.

Alfie-actions have consequences...and he is realizing this. But he thinks he has found the right woman for him, in Susan Sarandon. But when she pulls an Alfie on him, he realizes that perhaps he has been wrong. While thinking he has not hurt anyone, perhaps he has just been blind to what he has done in his narcissism.

There is another woman in the movie, but that is the essential storyline. Alfie starts as a playboy, devil-may-care guy, and grows up a bit.

It wasn't great, but it was reasonably good. The acting was good, and if a movie has both Marisa Tomei and Nia Long in it, it cannot be too bad. That's all I'm saying.