tomloew I've just seen this movie and it took me about ninety minutes to realize that the filmmakers were serious about what I thought must be irony.There's Jake, a completely nice and normal guy who is a music video director. Since he lives in a Manhattan loft, I think he is meant to be the successful and kind of crazy artist, however he's just average. Jake falls in love with Stella, a french girl. Now, there has probably never existed a more clichéd version of a french girl apart from Amélie. Stella is soft and tender, has huge eyes, a beeping voice and is of course very difficult. They fall in "love at first sight" in which also Jake, the fancy artist appears to believe. But then things get complicated, because she wants to be a housewife and mother and starts to call him at work all the time, while he's busy messing up his first feature movie. The movie shooting is sort of the parallel plot, but there's not much to report from there, although the producers, the chairman of the studio and the two protagonists of his movie add at least some fun and distraction.Later on, Stella has gone back to France and Jake, who drank himself to near unconsciousness at a typical (Irish…) U2-Party, somehow manages to fly to Las Vegas with Pia and to marry her. Now Pia is Irish, definitively clichéd as well, but at least she's cool. She too loves Jake, who seems to have this magical aura that lets women immediately fall in love with him upon first sight. Nevertheless, Jake has still only Stella on his mind, which is puzzling, because she's so boring, especially if you consider Pia, but then, Jake's boring, too.And that's the problem with this movie: There are too many clichés and two boring people, whom the audience should like and hope that they manage to come together again. Well, I couldn't and I couldn't believe that the filmmakers really are serious about Jake and Stella, but they were and the movie ends up in bitter syrup. One more cliché.

Tommy N It's refreshing to see a movie like this get made instead of some of the farces we seeing studio heads giving the green light to, today. Kudos to those who both greenlighted it and who made it.Entropy had it all for me because it was funny, tragic (funny tragic) and dramatic. I felt good throughout the movie and I actually don't know why I didn't know more about it or Phil Joanou. I blame this on the modern day movie machine not being able to properly promote movies that are both creative and eye catching. The scenes from New York's waterfront are in bold and contrasting colors, and it enlivened me further during a recent visit there. Joanou did the right thing film makers are supposed to do, he inspired us to see more into life and art and be entertained in the process. Such is the personal story that is being told in Entropy. After all, I don't think there is a single soul out there that hasn't felt some sort of incident or disaster in our romantic lives, and can't look back at it and laugh at in jest. We are not the most perfect of people, us humans, and all the better we can share the experience!I give Entropy an "8" just because it was so entertaining and visual, and while there will be many that will call this plainly over-rating, I don't care, I just really enjoyed the movie and could watch it again and again.

kate545 Obviously, director/writer Joanou thinks the events depicted in Entropy are world-class crazy. Personally, I've had crazier weekends.Married someone you didn't know in Vegas? Trite. Get caught getting a blow job on a plane? You know the response. Losing your girlfriend because of your brain-dead reaction to her pregnancy? Hardly the first time. Climb out of a window to escape? Who hasn't done it?Secondly, don't you get the feeling poor old Jake sees himself as the victim all the way through?Joanou seems to be so literal about some things in his story when he shouldn't have been and glosses over the things he should be deadly truthful about, such as his relationship with Stella.At the beginning I wonder why Stella is interested in him unless, of course... and she does reveal she knows he is directing a film in their first meeting. Ah, but no, her original love-at-first-sight motive is left to stand.And even in the end, am I supposed to think Stella hasn't found anyone else(presumably because Jake can't be replaced), that they are truly star-crossed lovers, doomed to live on opposite sides of the Atlantic because of something weird and un-translatable in Stella's brain?

richaudFullSail I have read all 36 reviews posted on this movie. I liked it that much, that i had to see what each person that took time out of their day had to say about it. To my delight, most of the comments were positive, some of them were bad (likely by people who enjoyed "The English Patient" or "Shine" -very good movies by the way), and few were accurate. This film was very much artistic. The camera work was phenomenal. The acting done by Stephen Dorff was down right excellence. The smoking cat scene was a bit silly "IF" you thought it was meant to be a realistic happening. Obviously he was imagining that but if you want to think otherwise, be my guest. The story was very good, and I don't think it could have been brought to the screen any better than it was. I enjoyed the movie very much and gave it a 10 only to bring up the 6.1 rating that I thought should have been higher. I would have otherwise given it a 9. Someone made a very clever comment about the movie being a real life incident in Joanou's life. Think about it. He directed U2 documentaries, and then went on to do movies. It was very realistic as it shows the real world of filmmaking. Producers very strict demands, problems with the cast. There were many things going on in this film and I thought that it was pulled together quite nicely. It gives you everything Hollywood wants, except the happy ending, which goes back to that thing called REALITY. Jake(Dorff) is a mess. You know this from the beginning because he's drinking and he's got a girl in bed that he married just the night before. He takes you through the occurrences that got him where he is. He takes a step into an unfamiliar world of directing with movies instead of his main talent, rock videos. He meets a girl, falls in love, screws the relationship up, quits his job, meets another girl and recklessly marries her, he gets a humiliating "wake up call" by his friend Bono as the other girl comes back for him, she leaves again, he gets divorced after being married for 24 hours to a woman he knew for 12, he tries to get back with the woman he originally fell in love with... need i go on? Realistically, these kind of things would make you go to the lengths that Jake actually does. He is a guy with a very wild mind, if he wasn't, he wouldn't be a great director. That is very important to realize. Normal minds in most cases cannot mastermind a movie. Anyways, i just thought that everything about this movie was great. I will not try and interpret every detail and TELL you what i think. I believe in something Stanley Kubrick once said. "I would not think of quarelling with your interperetations, nor offer any other, as i have always found it the best policy to let the film speak for itself"-Stanley Kubrick If you havent' seen the movie, you should and pull from it what you can. P.S. It's really funny. I thought i was the only person who right off the bat thought, 'Geez, this is kinda like Christian Slater in Kuffs!' Anyways, people copy each others style all the time. It was a good idea originally, and it was used again. No big deal, right?