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Highly Overrated But Still Good

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

She is a scientist in a loveless and dead marriage with politician Anthony. He is chef in a London hotel. They meet one night when she comes to a dinner event with her husband. A small bit of flirting turns into a meeting and starts an affair between him and her that is passionate and intimate despite the gap between them in regards race, status, culture, background and income.I was brought to this film out of curiosity more than anything else. The plot summary said that it was written entirely in rhyming couplets and, despite not knowing quite what to expect I figured it was different and interesting enough to be worth a look. At first the novelty of hearing a modern Shakespearian dialogue distracted me from the story but once my brain got into the flow of the words I was taken into the characters and the story. Plot wise I can see why some viewers are put off this because the story is secondary to the characters and the dialogue. That said though, the characters are well brought out with the dialogue – which is something I didn't think would be that easy to do. I was interested in He and She although I must admit that the story wasn't there to make the most of them.Instead the film does delight in the dialogue and holding the audience with the flow as much as with the content. This was enough for me but I understand why this makes this film one of limited appeal which is why the votes on this site number in the hundreds rather than the thousands. The cast respond well to this across the board but none more so than Allen. She enjoys the lead and makes a lot of her character and her lines. Abkarian is almost as good but the film offers him less to do – he works well with Allen even though the dialogue does slightly limit the impression of passion between them. Supporting turns from Neill, Leonidas, Lewis, Johnson mostly produce good individual scenes while Henderson does a good job as the narrator, framing the film as one of several cleaners viewing the stage while also being on it themselves.Overall then a curio piece that is worth a look for what it does well. It flows well to the ear even if Potter's ability as director is somewhat less than that as the writer here. The cast deal well with the dialogue and aid the flow but the weaknesses in the narrative are there for all to see and will put many viewers off from seeing what it does well.

Writer/director Sally Potter's movie "Yes" gives us an inkling - at least in terms of style -of what it might be like if Shakespeare were alive today and writing screenplays (though one hopes that they would turn out considerably better than this one happens to be). The "unique" characteristic of the film is that the characters discuss the meaning of life and the complexities of relationships entirely in poetic verse. Pure rhymes, slant rhymes, internal rhymes - virtually every type of rhyme can be found in this film. The problem is that the novelty of the conceit wears off mighty quickly, so that all we are ultimately left with are a bunch of pretentious, whiney characters driving us crazy with their high-toned blathering. Allow me to propose a simple rule of thumb: you know you'll be needing a sturdy pair of hip boots to wade through any movie, play or novel in which two of the main characters are referred to simply as He and She.I hope I won't be dismissed as a Philistine for objecting to this film. As a matter of fact, I am always open for anything even remotely novel and different in film-making, and I actually quite like the idea of a movie that plays like an extended poem. The problem is that I just couldn't stand any of the people we were being asked to care about in this particular work. Joan Allen and Sam Neill play a middle-aged English couple whose marriage has long ago become a hollow shell. They are clearly intended to be models of the enervated upper class - cynical, bored, filled with ennui and unable to communicate their innermost thoughts and feelings to one another - but we've seen these types of characters and marriages so many times before that Anthony and She feel more like caricatures than actual people (I'm not quite sure why he gets a real name and she - I mean She - doesn't, but no matter). And their speaking in verse only makes them all that more insufferable in their pseudo-profundity and monumental self-absorption.Allen, due to her extraordinary gifts as an actress, is at least able to cut through the pretentiousness and create some feeling for her character, but Neill and Simon Abkarian (who looks distressingly like Borat), as a chef from Beirut who becomes her lover (he's the He to Allen's She), are not quite so fortunate. Moreover, to make matters worse, in a movie in which language plays such a crucial part, some of the accents are so thick that much of the dialogue is simply incomprehensible. That only compounds the frustration of watching the movie.There are some genuinely lyrical moments when the movie seems to be working and we can see what the filmmakers were trying to get at. But, unfortunately, those wind up being too few and far between to keep us from voting a resounding "Nay" to "Yes."

I grabbed Yes off the shelf at Hollywood Video because I am a fan of Joan Allen and Sam Neil. Both are terrific actors and I was on my phone and told my friend what I had just picked up and she told me to rent this movie and that it was very good. She's a huge fan of independent movies, and she said this was one of the best. This movie is basically a gigantic poem. And to be honest, this wasn't really my movie. I'm just not an independent movie fan. While the movie is extremely interesting and done pretty well. It was very depressing in some ways. Especially when He breaks things off with She and He explains why. I think everyone could understand his heart break. Especially after the 9/11 attacks, everything he said was true. So, if you are a poem lover or an independent film lover, I'd recommend it. But if you are just a regular film lover, you might want to stay away from it.5/10

Please be prepared, because you may like this film. To be one of those, you must dislike President Bush and join other Europeans and Middle Easterners in hating the US, its influence, and its foreign policy. Joan Allen, a liberal wacko in real life, is a woman who comes to understand that her country is a bad and egotistical one.One a good note, some music in the soundtrack is excellent! From several Chopin pieces, to a Brahms waltz, to a snippet of Rachmaninov, the music in this film is mostly very satisfying. The acting in and of itself is also very good. The cinematography and scenes are picturesque as well.The entire film is written in silly poetry, yes, with rhymes! The filmmakers took Ms. Allen to rap/poetry readings (definitely "art") so she would understand this film's dialogue by Sally Potter. It is boring and slow moving, and it's supremely annoying with its forced rhyming (oh sorry, RAP) and unveiled loathing of the US. This is pure rubbish; and it's easy to see why Hollywood continues to moan about decreasing box office revenues each year. If this is the sort of product they produce, the trend will most certainly continue.