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If you're looking for an artistic depth, or even a semi-entertaining thriller, the "Virgin Territory" is not the right title, but then, at least as I see it,measuring up to the movies of the type is not the movie's idea. This is to be watched for the sake of lighthearted fun, Friday-night romance with your partner with a glass of wine, and, in general, a tint of "letting it loose". To be sure, more often than not the humor is failed and forced but I felt entertained by the gratuitous rascally nature of the characters, especially the men, rather than by the very jokes. Hayden Christensen, for the story he dealt with, was amusing and charming, if at times kinda bored. I assume neither he nor I were sure whatever he was playing - a chivalrous, rowdy medieval hero, or a clownish, immature "Anti- Romeo" - but the overall air of buffoonery he exuded kept my attention.
Of course, the additional reason - for which I dare believe practically all of us (men) who watched the movie - is the erotica. There is a number of nude scenes in which the women (again, in an uninvited and absurd, but still all the more entertaining way) treat men with their bodily assets. Gensini's and Colloca's behinds were a hypnotizing watch, but I hated how the scene I consider to be the real gem of the movie's nudity, the one with Elisabetta Canalis (herself a professional nude model from back in 2003) lasts too short (we get to see the breast for like a 20th of a second, practically making the exposure redundant). Oh well, there's always the "pause" button...
So, yes, enjoy the movie for the sake of semi-funny but melodramatically fulfilling romance and kill-time soft-core porn (I have a random hypothesis the latter was, in the long run, the actual motive this movie was produced - hence the lackluster "comedy" and "thriller" departments).
score 7/10
djurannikola 10 November 2016
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27-2-2021 10:26:09