Jude Law plays Will, a landscape architect going about the business of gentrifying Londons Kings Cross, a multiracial area teeming with crime and illegal immigrants. When Wills high-tech office is burgled, he tracks one of the teen thieves, Miro (Rafi Gavron), to the apartment the boy shares with his Bosnian mother, Amira (Juliette Binoche). The two indulge in an affair. For Will, floundering in a relationship with Liv (Robin Wright Penn), a Scandinavian whose melancholy rivals Hamlets, Amira is a way into a world he barely comprehends. When Amira secretly films their sex to blackmail Will so he wont turn Miro over to the police, the issues come to a head. Or they would if director-writer Anthony Minghella (The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley), in his first original script since his 1991 debut with Truly, Madly, Deeply, hadnt taken such a lethargic approach to the material. The actors, especially Binoche, do their damnedest to bring urgency to their roles. But despite Minghellas admirable attempt to tackle major themes on an intimate scale, the film goes down like weak tea. Theres no kick in it.
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