Just Another Love Story (2007)

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

"Just another love story" brings us the story of Jonas, who is involved in a car crash and soon mistaken for the victim's boyfriend when he tries to ease his conscience during a visit in hospital. Unable to clear things up, he more and more learns to like his new role and uses it to break out of his otherwise boring life. When Julia starts to remember some things of her past though, the harmless game could potentially become quite dangerous for Jonas.All in all I really liked the general mood this movie creates. It has the sinister and rather dark look that is typical for Northern-European movies. The different twists are carefully woven together, so that everything adds up in the end without getting too obvious. There are indeed a few aspects you could call at least unlikely, but that is the problem of any film trying to create several plot twists, events will most likely never appear all too likely.All in all this is really a strong movie within its genre. If you like a high level of tension and some mystery spiced with a little social criticism or just Northern thrillers in general, this could be the film for you.

This has some good moments, but falls apart badly in the closing third.The ending sequence is particularly implausible. Firstly his wife seems ready to take him back, despite the way he has treated her. The worst is yet to come however: Vietnamese? gangsters track him down (how?) and shoot him in the street (why would they believe him to be the real Sebastian?). Then incredibly the suitcase he just happens to be carrying at that exact moment falls open on the ground. Yet more incredible is that diamonds tumble out of the suitcase. How did the protagonist miss the apparently unhidden diamonds? Wasn't he searching through the suitcase for clues? Why would Sebastian (when in Hanoi) believe that death was his only option if still had a bunch of diamonds up his sleeve? This is by far the worst chunk of narrative in the film. However I felt that the final third was very weak. There was a lot that could have been explored that was not. Good ideas went to waste. For example - what of the child that was conceived in the hospital? Why did the passion that apparently consumed the protagonist dissipate so suddenly?

If you think the title is ironic, you'd be 100% correct. This is as unconventional a romance as it comes... as a bored, frustrated father of two witnesses a crash, where a beautiful young woman is injured. Suffering from amnesia, he puts his morals aside by pretending to be her boyfriend... fooling her family and leaving his in the process. What he doesn't bank on though, is the girl having a DARK AND MYSTERIOUS past which is about to turn around bite her (and him, by implication) in the... posterior. Ouch.Full of more twists and turns than the world's biggest chute, where the movie also scores is the superb direction... especially when two tense scenes are juxtapositioned (look it up, word fans) together. The acting is also on point, with each performer wringing every last drop of emotion and tension out of the material. And like the best suspense dramas, they talk to each other like REAL people, not cardboard cutouts from a pulp novel. Overall, the best import from Denmark since streaky bacon. Sorry, I'm not a Man U fan... 7/10

I am speechless. This movie is beyond good. It is the epitome of everything that I like about film - a movie that rivals American Beauty, Eternal Sunshine, and Mulholland Drive for artistic masterpiece of the last 10 years. It is a CRIME that this movie is only playing in one theater in New York City. I cannot remember the last time I was this entranced by a film, and in a way I feel lucky that I had the honor of being one of six people in a small theater in the Village watching this. Beautiful, dark, enigmatic, mysterious, erotic, intense, tragic, Symmetric. Perfection.