Trust the Man
So Trust the Man has been panned in the local paper (of course that means nothing), as well as on Rottentomatoes.com (that holds a little more water), and after seeing it I have to agree, and disagree. This isn't a 3 out of 10 movie (like Jack gave it), and probably is better than the 26% it's gotten on RT, but then again, if I had to give it a thumbs up or down I'd proabably have to go with down.
The cast isn't all that bad either. Duchovny actually does a good job in a comedic role, and I thought Maggie Gyllenhaal was good as well. But in the end, the movie just seems to be trying to play too many roles, and doesn't really seem to get any of them right. It's a comedy, without enough laughs, a "real-life" style drama that's too far fetched and unbelievable to be realistic at all, etc... I just can't feel for any of the characters, or care too much about them in the end. And the overly obvious ending (oh my, they all get together and live happily ever after?!?) was just too much when lumped with the rest of the film. Sure it did have some very good and whitty moments, but they couldn't hold together all the rest. And for a movie centered around four characters, I never felt I really got to know any of them beyond the superficial surface level.
I don't want to make it all sound like it was terrible, because it wasn't. I did enjoy myself through the majority of film, while in the theatre. But after I left, I just wasn't satisfied. And as I walked around and thought about it more, that feeling just grew. So it was good about about 2 hours of entertainment, but nothing past that.
RATING: Maybe Worth a Cheap Night, Maybe a Mid to Low Ranked Netflix Rental (not much more than that in either case though)