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Steve Ramos 2012-05-20 12:57:37

Spread never generates enough drama to make audiences care about Kutcher's lackadaisical boy toy and the film's laughs are too few for it to succeed as an Ashton Kutcher comedy.

click_1993 2012-05-20 07:44:56

A film of lust and love and the difference

I enter the film without too higher expectations. I though it would notbe worth my while. Yet it became clear quickly the acting andattraction of the film was a lot better that I had originalanticipated. I am proud to say that by the end I was truly impressedand moved; particularly by the ending and Ashton Kutcher acting asNikki. Spread is a film with a story not dissimilar to other eroticthrillers. The character of Nikki is not unlike the character of DanielDay-Lewis in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Yet in spite of thefilm seeming simplicity, Spread has a lot more to offer than at firstglance. Nikki, (Ashton Kutcher) is a character who is very dependant onother people. He almost feed of the women he meets as if he is aparasite. Although from an external point of view Nikki is a heartlesscreature, through out the film one is pulled into him whether willingor not.The other actors in the film give a strong a convincing part as theyhelp or hinder Nikki through his life. Although the acting is by nomeans bad, Kutcher does slightly push the others into a shadow. Hisperformance is a superb one. He does not use a lot of drastic movementsor shouting to move is characters emotions. Indeed it is the stillnessand quietness of Kutcher which gives Nikki his edge. Kutcher strengthis in his voice. He has a very sexy and convincing voice, but that isnot all that he uses it for. The happiness, lust, greed, love, sadnessand despair which Nikki feels are conveyed wonderfully through Kutchervoice. The film takes place in LA: A city connected with dreams andheartbreaking. LA is often seen as a place where misery lives and thisis referenced at the end of the film yet the city is portrayed as adesirable place to live. Part of this is through Nikki's eyes with thesense that everything in his life is perfect. Yet even after it allbegins to go wrong, the city still remains beautiful. This reminds theview that we are not watching a film about LA, we are watching a filmabout a promiscuous young man. Also on a deeper note it could be toconvey the fact that love can be found right in front of your eyes evenif you can't see it.The erotic senses in the film are seen as very casual. They happen infrequent bursts. These scenes seem to just copy one another almost, asif every girl is the same to Nikki. Yet once he leaves Samantha andre-meets Heather the scenes change in feel. They become longer andgentler; more beautiful and loving. Eventually Nikki falls in love with Heather. We know from the startthat there is something different for she is the one girl he has a truedifficulty seducing. Usually it is Nikki who plays and uses the womenhe takes, but Heather almost reverses this and seems to be playing withhim. Nikki's mind changes and he does begin to feel a true sense oflove rather than just lust. Although Heather does "break" Nikki's heartit does show the audience that Nikki does have a heart and he is justas human as the next man. Heather has an extra intelligence which theother women don't and this along with a combination of other thingsbrings out the heart in Nikki.The film as a whole is an interesting story and well acted with a goodscript and ideas. The ending its self is a very good ending for thestory and has a very final conclusion to it. The film manages to conveywhat it is trying to say and in a way that is not boring or repetitive.The film is an adult film in both content and idea, however, it is afilm definitely worth watching and I would recommend it to any adultwith a interest in good film drama.

Danny Blankenship 2012-05-18 00:27:02

A hotshot young stud finds that after lust and pleasure in the real world love hurts!

"Spread" probably isn't a movie classic still even though the film hasplenty of skin and kinky erotic sex it still teaches a message thatfinding love is tough it hurts, and that in the real world one mustgrow up. The cast works well together especially the chemistry betweenKutcher and Heche is in top form. And the plot is very interesting atleast emotionally as it shows how a young man grows from lust towanting love.Set in Los Angeles, CA you have Nikki(Ashton Kutcher)as a young manwho's a want to be hotshot as in the city of angels he climbs in andout of the beds of beautiful women just like changing underwear daily.Yet that's all Nikki wants is the young hot ladies that he sees atparties. Only when one night he meets Samantha(Anne Heche)who's aclassy and elegant sophisticated attorney this woman not only has abody, but she's full of money and power. Now could this be the chancefor Nikki to settle down no all he wants from Samantha is hot steamyand erotic raunchy sex. And many of the scenes show just that the skinscenes of Anne Heche were a nice eye candy treat. Yet this does notdevelop into anything loving or meaningful as Samantha gets tired ofthe boy toy as she sees Nikki just will not grow up.Then when you think the film twist with Nikki finding love with awaitress named Heather(Margarita Levieva) at first the dating appearsreal yet only when Nikki wants a commitment he finally feels the coldshoulder. As really it's a dose of his own medicine as Heather doesn'twant to commit to him proving love is complex and cold it hurts.Overall good film that's erotic and sex driven still it proves eventhough pleasure is enjoyed, that when searching for love it hurts andit's complex and tough to find. As I took that message from the film.

Matthew Turner 2012-05-17 06:36:39

An enjoyable, well written and superbly acted drama that plays like a modern day update of films like Shampoo or American Gigolo.

Cami 2012-05-10 19:56:18

Grocery boy

A drifter of a guy living in los angeles spreads himself too thin among the rich and the chicladies only to be busted down to grocery bag boysize once the ladies start researching his antics.Grade D for down sized drifterSim--"Gigolo" "Arthur" "American werewolf"

Christopher Kelly 2012-05-10 09:16:47

Mostly Spread feels likes a bungled opportunity.

Aaron Hillis 2012-05-01 18:02:46

Spread eventually reveals a gloomy raincloud of a moral meditation about unhealthy lifestyles and self-delusion.

Tim 2012-05-01 14:32:06

don't waste your time

other than the few small tit shots, this movie was dreadful. the story was pathetic, Ashtons acting is better in the Nikon commercials than in this movie. save your money and your time!!

Jason McKiernan 2012-04-29 01:28:41

one of those ridiculously shallow movies that finds it smugly cute to depict a worthless, pretty-faced prick taking advantage of women and treating it as a science

2012-04-28 11:15:10

Anne Heche

This review is from: Spread (DVD) Anne just looks so damn good. Worth every penny just to see her. Not bad for an old woman.

Dragoneyed363 2012-04-28 04:28:28

Very satisfying and well acted; I enjoyed it

While Spread certainly wasn't a popular film when it was released, itdidn't fly by my eye and it caught my attention for some reason, and Ihad been wanting to see it for awhile. When I got to view it, I wasactually pretty satisfied with what I saw. The movie itself is quitewell done and though it's apathetic and dull around the edges, the mainstory is strong and effective. The acting from both Ashton Kutcher andAnne Heche is great and believable, in my opinion, and though all thecharacters certainly weren't breathtakingly astonishing, they wereactually well done enough to where I enjoyed them and I thought theywere interesting and likable.The real redeeming qualities this film has are an interesting plot, andAnne Heche & Ashton Kutcher. While the plot, as I've said, is a littletiresome, it never fails at being interesting and appealing. It pulledme in from the beginning because I got into Ashton Kutcher's characterand I thought it kicked off to a very interesting start. AshtonKutcher's character Nikki while being a bit tedious at times, as weremost characters, was never really badly done and his and Anne Heche'scharacter Samantha's chemistry together was amazing and their story islikable, and her character was probably my favorite because of theactress's portrayal, which leads me to another great aspect of thisfilm; The performances.Anne Heche was amazing as Samantha, and I really just found herperformance genuinely likable and impressively delightful. AshtonKutcher also did a pretty good job with Nikki and Margarita Levieva didalright with Heather, too, but the performances by and especially thechemistry between Heche and Kutcher was what I really enjoyed and forthat I thought the first half of the film was stronger than the secondhalf, which became kind of rushed and, how shall I say, dry, but stilleffective.Nonetheless, this movie in my opinion is entertaining, interesting,well acted and it has a very poignant script. While it's certainly nomasterpiece, and could've been done better in ways, it was still verysatisfying and I enjoyed it. Not the best of 2009, and not one of themost popular, but it is a secret pleasure that I hope to get morepeople aware of.

2012-04-27 22:38:45

An egregious attempt at film-making

This movie was dreadful. Firstly, Ashton Kusher may be suitable to playjovial roles in tawdry sitcoms; however, he lacks the talent to assumemore serious parts. The main character in Spread is a young cad namedNikki (Kusher), who narrates about the complexities of living in LosAngeles. Yet his narration is mostly a collection of meaningless quotesthat make him sound like a buffoon trying to appear knowledgeable. Nikki visits a nightclub one evening and meets Samantha (Anne Heche), arich older lawyer with a lavish condo. The two start a relationship andthe film is loaded with sex scenes of this 'cougar' and her 'boy-toy.'Nikki moves into her condo (he is a bum without a house or a car, thushe repeatedly mooches off wealthy older women). After a few days,Samantha leaves for a business trip and Nikki invites some youngergirls over for some carnal escapades. Samantha comes home early fromher trip and catches Nikki cheating, yells at him, but then secondslater the two start having sex.The character development in the movie is flimsy. Heche's acting isacceptable, yet the film neglects to explain how a gorgeous andsuccessful lawyer is drawn to an underachiever like Nikki. The directorof the film, David McKenzie, is focused on skin over story. This shouldbe his last film for the silver screen and he should apply his skillsto pornography, which seems to be his preference. That may sound harsh;however, anyone who directs a movie heavy on sex, low on plot, and withbad acting is not suited to make legitimate films. As the story progresses, Nikki later genuinely falls in love with anattractive waitress named Heather (Margarita Levieva). But she is ahustler who abandons him for a rich businessman in New York. A dejectedNikki returns to L.A. where he gets a job delivering groceries.This is 98 minutes of my life that I will never get back. None of thecharacters are worth caring for and the acting, aside from Heche, islousy. The only reason I am not giving this movie a 1 rating is becausemy 2010 New Year's Resolution is be a nicer person and voting 2 out of10 constitutes an act of generosity.

2012-04-26 10:20:25

Perfect for a mindless evening with ice cream

This is a definite "B" level movie, nice sets, nice bodies, some unexpected but totally non-erotic sex scenes.Worth viewing if you have nothing else on the table.

kiitah 2012-04-26 04:41:03

Wow. Ashton is more than Keanu 2.0!

Within the first 5 minutes of opening, I thought Ashton really chosepoorly in accepting this role; he chose a role too close to what he isperceived as in real life. First and foremost in my mind, he's an exmodel hottie. Secondly, he has never seemed like the sharpest tool inthe shed based on the roles he's played. Thirdly, I wonder would he bewhere he "is" today without Demi? He saunters in, first scene, lookinglike a cross between a gay hairdresser and a wanna be edgy member ofGreen Day. He's talking smack about how beautiful he is, and how he'sridden on the coat tails of his charm and appearance and sexed his wayaround LA. Boy, I thought, I'm glad these tickets were free...In the end, I was surprised that I was able to suspend disbelief andactually believe what his character was feeling, saying and doing, andNO, it wasn't because the role wasn't a stretch for him. He actually*acted*, so much so that I forgot who he was and that I wasn't supposedto think he was doing a good job! The story line has some extraneouscharacters that muddle and muck up the story, and some are not asdeveloped as could be, but all in all, for what it's intended for, it'sa good escape. It shouldn't be classified as a romantic comedy though,there is nothing romantic about it. It's about a man who moves fromSugar Momma to Sugar Momma, whoring himself out to the highest bidder.In the end, he doesn't find love- appropriately his unrequited lovechooses her own Sugar Daddy over him. If it were a true romanticcomedy, the two poor but in love people would forsake their desire tolive a lavish lifestyle with OPM and move into a refrigerator boxtogether, but alas, no, she turns him down.In the end, I found it a little depressing, actually, but isn't thathow life really is? No happy ending here, and that made it actuallybetter than it would have been with a nice, tight, Hollywood as usualmovie wrapped up with a shiny, red bow.As an aside, there's lot of eye candy for your viewing pleasure, notjust of Ashton romping around in bed naked, but plenty of hot women,too.

WilliamL 2012-04-24 10:55:28

MOVIE WAS MEDIOCRE

FIRST OF ALL ASHTON KUTCHER'S WARDROBE WAS HORRIBLE. WHY HE WOULD WEAR THOSE STUPID SUSPENDERS IN EVER SCENCE MADE THE ENTIRE MOVIE LESS CREDIBLE. THE FEMALE CAST WAS PERFECT AND ANNE HECHE WAS AWESOME IN THE ROLE. ASHTON WAS NOT RIGHT FOR THIS ROLE. PASS ON THIS MOVIE....

Brent Simon 2012-04-24 06:05:01

In certain ways, Spread feels like the adaptation of some lost Bret Easton Ellis novel, before he got into drugs and wild, satiric hyperbole, crossed with a story strand from The Real World. Sorry, that's not a good thing.

Felix Gonzalez Jr. 2012-04-22 06:56:49

Ashton Kutcher is unwilling (or unable) to make himself the object of the same judgmental lens through which he has "Punk'd" other celebrities.

Floated2 2012-04-22 04:38:22

A sex comedy with plenty of sex, not enough comedy and nowhere near enough smarts

Spread is just basically a film where Ashton Kutcher gets to show-offand gets around to seeing a lot of pretty women fleshed and takingadvantage of them. Its a sex comedy with enough sex and not enoughcomedy nor smarts to deliver. The movie sets its tone in the first fewminutes with Ashton (Nikki) reading his first line while walkingaround. "I don't want to be arrogant, but I'm an incredibly attractiveman," he informs by his dry narration – he ingratiates himself into thelives of rich older women to gain access to good clothes, fine food andluxurious living.The film and its characters were very odd and weird. Nikki was verymonotone and did what he wanted. Anne Heche (Samantha) was way generoustowards Nikki, and it starts by their introduction. It seemed to fakeand unrealistic. The film starts out rough in its first 30 mins thengets slightly better. The first half of the film is more of a sex-comwith the adventures that Nikki takes involving Samantha. The 2nd halfof the film involves Heather a waitress who Nikki eventually gets andstays with. This half becomes more of a rom-com and this is where thefilm goes downhill. In the second half, Samantha isn't in the film(except in the last 5 mins). The script and plot were just dumb and notgreat, the movie just falls apart and the film gets boring. Its arather different Hollywood film.Another thing with the film is that Kutcher's performance wasn't allthat great and he wasn't really believable as the gigolo. Also theclothes he's showing wearing are pretty silly (colourfull clothes andsuspenders) Lastly, the ending was actually pretty weird anddepressing, though not much. The audience didn't really care much abouthim in the first place and the ending showed that. But it still haveshould ended better. The last few minutes ends with Nikki speaking andpicking up a mouse and making his toad eat the mouse. It sets like thatfor the last 5 minutes until the screen went black, its pretty bizarre.But before that it showed that he didn't end up with neither girl(Heather or Samantha). The film has its moments but not many, and theyshould have added more comedy. It really isn't a funny film and I don'tthink it was really trying but the trailers showed it out to be aromantic comedy. The movie was pretty bad and could have been muchbetter.

Avi Offer 2012-04-20 19:51:06

Mildly engaging with slick cinematography and a sexy cast, but it's often like its protagonist himself: superficial, shallow, lazy and lacking an emotional core.

2012-04-19 23:06:01

VERY GOOD MOVIE

This review is from: Spread (DVD) I AM A FAN OF ASTON KUTCHER'S, THOUGH I DIDN'T LIKE HIS VOICE IN IT, LOVE ANNE HECHE'S PARTS, VERY GOOD MOVIE