So I come home from an exhausting long day, find out there's something wrong with my internet and it can't be fixed until at least few hours (turns out it took about 4 hours to get everything back right) anyways, I was bored and then I look at my DVDs and I find this one. I always wanted to see it but never found the time. But, now that I do, I thought to myself, "why not?"
I laid on my bed with Oreo (my cat, he loves to watch movies lmao) watching this movie on my TV. At first I thought Peter was going to turn all Bryan Mills (from Taken movie series) or Michael McCauley (The Commuter), because it seems to me like everytime you mess with Liam Neeson's persona's family, you're going to get hurt lol. But, no, it was a really interesting deep and somewhat thought provoking. However, I thought this could have been better. I thought there was something that is missing but I can't put my finger on it. I do enjoy these type movies and I do like Liam Neeson(s performances in them, he was good in "Mark Felt", "The Third Person" and this one. I don't know exactly what was it that amde me a little disappointed. Maybe I thought I did not expect it to end this way.
However, I still enjoyed this and it made me forget about the internet for a good 90 minutes. Haha!

High Infidelity - High High High High!

The Other Man is directed by Richard Eyre who co-adapts the screenplay with Charles Wood from a short story written by Bernhard Schlink. It stars Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Antonio Banderas and Romola Garai. Music is by Stephen Warbeck and cinematography by Haris Zambarloukos.

Neeson plays Peter, a tortured husband who upon finding evidence of his wife's infidelity, travels to Milan to confront her lover in the hope of understanding.

There is nothing remotely funny about infidelity, it can wreck lives. Sadly The Other Man is a funny film, though not intentionally. It so often misses the beat of real grief and anger, throwing up ridiculous situations that beggar belief, it's often impossible to take seriously, so much so that when the big reveal etc comes crashing forward, the emotional impact is null and void. There's a couple of decent plot turns and the Italian locales are gorgeously photographed, but the script is trite, the score out of sync and ultimately it wastes a damn fine cast. 5/10