While I found the movie interesting, dark, and mildly absorbing if a bit affected...the whole things would have been given a higher score had Julia Roberts picked an accent and stuck with it! What was going through her head? Am I Irish? Am I a Southern Belle? Am I the same character I played in "Sleeping with the Enemy"? Did I have an accent in that movie? When I'm irritated with the other servants, I'll be lower cockney. When I'm terrified by the "Master", I'll be a bit Southern... No accent is a good accent! Her poor voice coach! I did however, appreciate the change of pace for Julia. Of course, I'm talking about the bangs she's wearing in this film. I did not see this as a big stretch for her as far as acting goes. Take her character from "Sleeping With the Enemy", the mealy, mousy woman she was while under the abusive reign of her husband, and lengthen that role. Add an annoying in and out accent and some creepy love scenes...Voila! No, not a huge stretch there.
Review of Mary Reilly
