Breaking and Entering (contains spoilers)

Let it be known that I had very low expectations of this movie. I am the first to admit that I really only went for a perve at Jude Law. Fortunately I was pleasantly surprised. The basic premise is that Jude Law (I think his character's name was Will) has a new fancy pants landscape design warehouse office full of expensive computers in the middle of Kings Cross in London. Some little punks break in twice very early on in its running. The parallel story is Jude's home life with his Swedish partner, and Bea, his partner's (and his really, but not biologically) daughter, who is having a lot of problems and its made out as though she is possibly autistic or OCD. Anyway.

Basically Will becomes obsessed with finding the people that break in. He tracks down the 15 year old kid, and through quite devious means, meets his mother (Juliette Binoche). Basically he starts and affair with the mother partially in response to his screwed up home life (him and his partner are becoming increasingly distant) and partially, we are lead to believe, to bring him closer to the kid who is part of the crime ring that has broken in to his office.

The movie had plenty of interesting twists, and lots of interesting takes on his home life, his work life, his relationship with his daughter and his wife it. It had some quirky moments, like his friendship with the prostitute he befriends while staking out his office at night time. And towards the end, it genuinely looked to me as though everything was going to fall apart for everything and there was going to be one of the best movie endings - the 'everything has gone to shit' ending. As Catherine put it 'I like it when people reap what they sow'.

But, there was a serious lack of chemistry between Jude Law and Juliette Binoche's characters, making the affair seem disjointed and unrealistic. For such a convoluted situation, everything all tied up far too neatly at the end, to the point where I actually felt extreme disappointment at what I think was a total cop out of an ending.

All in all, this movie was actually pretty engrossing until the end - despite the lack of chemistry the atmosphere was created well and the fact that the kid and his mother were Bosnian (and a little of the background was offered by way of explanation for their behaviour) added a lot of depth. But as soon as it became evident that the ending was going to be a cop out, I couldn't invest anything more in this film.

6.5