ENTERTAINMENT
There’s really nothing fresh or entertaining in what director David Mackenzie and writer Jason Hall want to say.
Film: Spread
Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Anne Heche, Margarita Levieva, Sebastian Stan, Rachel Blanchard, Sonia Rockwell
Director: David Mackenzie
Rating: *
Toy Boy Ashton Kutcher produces this film so there’s little wonder
that it’s all about a good looking young man who is basically a sexual grafter-one who ‘spreads’ his sexual favors preferably on single accommodating older women for a piece of their ‘high’ life.
Nikki(Kutcher) is on the prowl, seeks out a susceptible older woman Samantha(Anne Heche) a successful lawyer, at a bar, plys his tricks-of-the-trade and ends up at her place living the high life while providing his unique sexual service to the ever needy lady.
Then he meets Heather(Margarita Levieva) at a café and falls for her charms. But there are problems in furthering their romance ‘cos she is his female counterpart in every sense and plays by the same rules he does. Love and fresh air don’t interest her at all!
The film probably was intended as an expose of Hollywood’s golden boys with great physique and looks, basically airheads who hang around pools and clubs to get picked-up for big bucks and a share in lifestyle- but it just doesn’t feel that way.
Kutcher’s jaded voiceover is appropriate enough but the scenes that follow are so vapid, depraved and tawdry that it’s difficult to comprehend his redemption that comes towards the end of the film. The film is set in LA and cinematographer Stephen Poster manages to capture the city in all it’s sparkle and glory. But the cliché ridden script, the ineffective performances, narrative over-indulgence in sex and sleaze and distinct lack of conviction in the plotting are most likely to put you off.
There’s really nothing fresh or entertaining in what director David Mackenzie and writer Jason Hall want to say. We’ve seen it all before in ‘American Gigolo’, ‘Shampoo’ and ‘Midnight Cowboy,’ definitively to much greater and lasting effect. Ashton Kutcher looks the role but lacks the talent, charm and screen presence of those illustrious actors( Richard Gere, Warren Beatty, Jon Voight) who have essayed similar roles in the abovementioned films. So why waste precious time pandering to Kutcher’s ego-massaging effort.? You’d do better to re-view either of the three films for far greater purchase!
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