Not as tantalizing as one could expect it to be, given the subject matter and the fact it stars a pornstar as the call girl.

It is 77 minutes long and the movie itself knows it doesn't have a lot to tell (i wont get into much detail to avoid spoilers) and doesn't out-stay it's welcome.

To compensate it's lack of robust story, it has a non-linear timeline, without guides or visual queues to make you realize you came back in time which, in all honesty, i liked because it assumes the viewer is intelligent and attentive and doesn't hold his hand at every turn.

It uses very little dynamic, cinematic techniques, making you feel at times you are watching a documentary (it IS directed by Soderbergh...) or a live feed of a reality show which accomplishes, in my mind, the goal of the film: to show that, ironically, the life of a call-girl is as much devoid of fulfillment and excitement and as much in need of escapism and conventional stability as the people who seek a call-girl to escape their mundane lives.

She's as bored and lonely and looking a meaningful relationship as her clients. Every single one of her client's complaints about their own lives translate perfectly to her own life. And i think that's why the third act ending is more powerful than it can at first sight seem: [spoiler] she is reject by a client that has everything she wants: a regular family life, with kids, companionship, and stronger than the siren's call [/spoiler]

Maybe this movie wasn't a hit because it didn't have as many excitement or glamour as it the title would suggest. Maybe that's because, as the director seems to want to show by telling her story in so little time and with so little shots, the actual call-girl's life doesn't have many of both as well