Alexandra's Project (2003)

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Such a frustrating disappointment

Just perfect...

Awesome Movie

The movie is engaging but the premise doesn't deliver anything a 'F-you, I'm leaving' letter, couldn't do much more easily. If the husband had been created as a horrible person his wife might be justified in going to such extremes but he's really not that bad. He doesn't seem to be guilty of anything other than neglect (in her mind), 'not listening' and 'maybe' an affair. He doesn't beat her or even mistreat her in the conventional way of looking at things. I don't even know what the grounds for divorce would be. I thought the movie was headed toward him understanding his mistakes and trying to be a better person. He is never given that chance. Instead he is just told how much he sucks through the entire movie and then it ends. The idea that a security consultant wouldn't be able to find his runaway wife who essentially kidnapped their two children (who would be bitching within the first couple of weeks that their father, who they seem to love, is not with them) is ludicrous. If he couldn't find them with his own resources he could turn the case over to the police. She KIDNAPPED his CHILDREN!!! This is a classic case of a writer getting in over his head and not being able to successfully resolve the premise he's created. Instead we're subjected to a one-sided non-stop complaining with no 3rd act and nothing like a meaningful resolution in sight. This should've been solved on the page before it made it to the screen. Overall, well acted and directed but as unsatisfying as Alexandra seems to think their marriage is.

The acting and the direction are fine. The story is a very tough one. It's about a woman who decides to punish her husband because he made her unhappy. Actually this man is just an ordinary man: it's her mental illness to make her doing all the disgusting things she does: being a prostitute in her home, filming a video while having sex with their neighbor and kidnapping her children.The weakest point in the plot is the ending. Viewer cannot understand the reason why the man does not denounce his wife for having kidnapped the children and having left the family with no acceptable reason.Anyway the movie works pretty well and I liked it. 7/10

Good props, good scenery, competent acting and a gripping story that leaves the viewer on the edge of their seat makes this movie worth watching. There is a lot of nudity and some sex scenes, but are not gratuitous in that they are *actually part of the story.*Most of the reviews on this site are full of it. This movie is not nearly as bad as people are making it out to be. This is first and foremost a psychological thriller, it is NOT intended to leave you feeling comfy with your world view or everyday assumptions of how day to day life works. It is very much a "what you see is not always what you get" kind of movie. If you watch this and feel *that* enraged that you start attacking women, feminism, or encouraging violence against women; then you have serious psychological issues that need MUCH MORE than Prozac to fix. But, if you are a man who is secure in yourself and your ability to relate with women as human beings; this movie won't bother you at all. It might even amuse you. Several times I found myself laughing because this movie *really does* portray the average white collar career climbing narcissist as the clueless, dismissive derp that he is. Over here in the states, they act much more arrogant and stuck on themselves but the idea comes across well enough.The point-of-perspective of this movie is very intriguing. The first part of the movie is from the point of view about the husband. The viewer sees HE is visible to the public, HE is compensated for his contribution to society, HE is rewarded for doing a good job, HE is celebrated as a valuable member of society. The wife is sort of "just there" doing all the things society takes for granted; and goes relatively unnoticed unless she is doing something out of the ordinary.Fast forward about a half an hour and we start to see things from the wife's perspective. Her perspective is shown from the television screen, which is meant to symbolize the smallness of her voice and visibility compared to the husband's. His birthday present is a tape that he has the power to pause, fast forward, turn off, or do whatever he wants; conveying that everything has been on his terms from the word go. Despite all this, I did NOT walk away from this movie feeling it was feminist. It is a story that is MEANT to fly in the face of popular opinion of what people have the "right" to do. People saying the wife is "wacko" are clueless. That was never part of the story. She didn't Snap. She was completely lucid throughout. THAT is what makes the movie so disturbing in the first place.For pete's sakes. The conclusions people come up with about movies are endlessly creative in their interpretation. And out of all the movies that visit graphic, psychopathic, explicit, *obscene* scenes of violence and rape on the bodies of women; people choose THIS movie to get upset about? Really? It wasn't even scary, well, not unless you think losing control of the remote to the television (or anything else you "think" is property) is a horrifying thought. Then I suggest you skip it, because you all you will do is react; and you will not be able to *get* the story that was being told in the first place.

No vote for this loser of a film. About this sick woman who feels she is abused and takes it out on those closest to her. Her husband and her children. I kept wishing she would pull the trigger. This guy would definitely be better off without the mousy housewife around. Actress playing the wife was so dour and sexless, you wonder what he ever saw in her in the first place. She was his sex object? Please, give us a break. Looking at her flat chested wimpy face would turn anyone off. I just didn't buy this good looking man would ever go for her. There must have been better looking women for the role. Is she the best in Australia actresses? Now Nicole Kidman would be something else. I won't mention the actress's name because I hope not to see her in films again. I mean, she's that ugly, man. Writer and director (same person) should go back to basic film study as this was just awful.