Wonderful character development!

Sick Product of a Sick System

Good concept, poorly executed.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

The worst thing about this movie is that the leads, played by Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick, are obsessive stalkers. He wants his lover back, but instead of taking a normal approach, he decides to set up elaborate spying equipment to watch her every move. His creepiness is matched only by Ryan's character, who conveniently shows up with listening equipment that adds sound to the visuals.We are supposed to buy into the idea that because they were hurt by someone, we should cheer them on as they deliberately ruin someone's career, business, relationship, and reputation. And of course invade his privacy and even break his bones. It's not funny, and the characters just come across as pathetic losers who can't deal with life. I kept wanting to tell them to get over it, for heaven's sake. It is possible to get audiences to cheer for the antagonists in a story, but this one is not told well enough or acted well enough to show us redeeming qualities that would cause us to root for them.There is no chemistry between the two lead characters. A relationship between them is just not believable. Despite that, these two nutbars end up with each other and will hopefully leave normal people alone.Broderick is even more vapid than usual. In a way he is well-suited to this role of a guy with no real emotions. Ryan has a few good moments but mostly seems mis-cast in her role. She is not believable as a tough, motorcycle-riding, bitter person bent on revenge, and she doesn't have the acting chops to pull off the moments in which we are meant to see the hurt surfacing in her.I'm still annoyed, days after watching this, that I wasted my time on it.

Meg Ryan has always been my favorite actress for her spontaneous acting. The best of hers was always "You Have got mail", and "Sleepless in Seattle". But "Addicted to Love" sets a new standard about her.This is the story about two pairs of lovers played by Maggie-Anton and Sam-Linda. Story starts with both of them being dropped by their respective partners for each other.Both Sam and Maggie have been dropped by their respective partners for each other. And they must work together to reunite with their respective partners. Both of them tried to ruin Anton's life who is the ex boy friend of Maggie so that they can separate the couple. But while doing so, unknowingly they fall for each other.A plain and simple love story presented so well that it can be watched again and again. A romantic comedy about obsession, possessiveness. Both Sam played by Matthew Broderick and Maggie played by Meg Ryan have done justice to their role. However, Anton played by Tcheky Karyo has done a tremendous role too.

Just a point of clarification... Sam, as an astronomer, is familiar with a tool used many decades before for observing distant objects, called a camera obscura. It works very much like an overhead projector, but it has no light source of its own. A lens and/or prism receives an outside image and projects it upon a flat wall of a darkened room using the light from the outside image. See http://brightbytes.com/cosite/what.html On several occasions in the film when the girlfriend and the boyfriend are moving about in the other apartment, you will notice Maggie or Sam turning the camera obscura to follow the action, and it moves the projected image.The use of this astronomical tool adds much needed depth to the Sam character, and the "projector" is perhaps the only metaphysical allusion in the whole film.

Addicted To Love is the predictable story of a boy meets girl, boy loses girl etc etc. But then there's the whole delightful set up of spying and sabotaging someone else's relationship with an unlikely partner.Matthew Broderick plays the typical nice guy with lovely ideals and a desperation that's funny to watch. I love the Milkyway Man's tee-shirt. Also loved the "What's your name?"/"Mike."/"What's your name, Mike?"/"Sam." lines! Meg Ryan is great in a different role; this time someone who's hardened by a broken heart and closed to new relationships.I loved that our protagonists were also antagonists, that no one was really what they seemed in the first place. Overall, the movie was so enjoyable but I think lacked some indeterminable thing that could've made it more than just a video store hit.