With A-lfie, i start to watch (and so review) my web movies. Just a note about the practice because the truth isn't exactly what you can hear. First, with the ticket price getting more and more expensive, movies lost their popular audience. Next, the copyright is actually perverted as art isn't for consumption (it's for enlighten) and culture must not become the next oil power all the more that its numeric nature makes it inexhaustible. In practice, to buy the DVD, you must find it and sometimes, it's impossible. When i tried online shopping, my packages were stolen and the post office wasn't totally white. As i'm deaf, i need subtitles and a lot of times, the subtitles are lacking, especially the french movies! At last, to watch a web movie on TV, it requires a lot of expertise as the TV, movies, subtitles must work all together. It asks for patience and time so it's not as simply as clicking on the mouse!About "Alfie" now, the movie got me mixed feelings: the idea of having a character interacts with the audience is very original, but to be great, the character should be interesting. Choosing a playboy bachelor played by Jude Law was not my cup of tea. Law is among my list of unbearable as he highly and irritatingly uses and abuses his good look. At least, it was the perfect pick for the part because Alfie has just the kind of life that exasperates me: it's empty, superficial, dishonest with only time for parties, drinking, getting stoned and catch as much babes as possible.On the other side, Alfie says true things about life: sometimes, you can do good but you are misinterpreted. Unexpected problems lurk always on your path, "uh-oh" attitudes exist in everyone but unlike the movie, we must prepare and not throw away the person. The best one was that a single mum can have accessories that can be irresistible: i knew this situation and i ended caring more for the kid than his difficult mother...If NYC was a good location to tell his story, it's a pity that the colors are quite ugly. Maybe the most silly moment was when he prefers to spend time with boring and old Sarandon instead of trying building something with cute and considerate Sienna. Dumping her on a cold rainy night and not helping with words or with her suitcases is the ultimate insult and i wonder if they really done the thing like this in their real life.

Two remarks on the quite good experience this film is: -one is the visual aspect of the thing. This is a visual tapestry, each scene has its own visual strenght, and could actually be enjoyed on its own, but all together they make an impression on you. Every affair in Alfie's life has its own visual treatment, according to the mood of it. Colours, and camera work are elements taken care of. Watching the extras, one gets the impression that artistic values were something in the minds of theses guys, but i'll credit Ashley Rowe a great deal for what was done here. The colours are something in the line of what Chris Doyle might do. IT's interesting how Jude Law fits well this kind of photography, we saw him in similar situation in the recent 'my blueberry nights'.-the other thing is the story telling device. I haven't seen the original, so i may be commenting on something that happens already in that one, but i would bet not. Alfie speaks to the camera, he speaks to us. He denounces the staging all this is, and the artificiality of cinema in itself (lush, but artificial photography underlines this). The film is episodic in its nature, every women is an episode, but we know Alfie is our narrator, as we get every feeling directly from his mouth. Jude Law is a very interesting actor, one of the good actors we have these days, and he delivers, he knows how little dramatic and exaggerated he has to be in order to make this work. The success of this strategy is to make us assume Law's words as a dialog between him and us, instead of a monologue like, say, Depp in 'The Libertine'. Jude Law knows it, he pauses the speech, and intonate as if he was chatting, instead of narrating. Very good.Jude Law is a character in himself, even through fashion. In this film he was at the beginning of a relation with Sienna Miller, they're seen in a collection of clips reading Vogue together. This is no innocent. Actually it is a very clever way to build they're own public personalities out screen.Oh and we have a story. A playboy, single man, with his life centered on women, searching for true affection, living love as episodes and suffering from the consequences of his irresponsibility. It's a mere excuse to unfold visual storytelling. Some women, though are interesting. We have Tomei, we have Miller, we have Sarandon, who, though being limited as an actress, is well placed in the film.My opinion: 4/5 http://www.7eyes.wordpress.com

Jude Law is no Micheal Caine , and he should understand that no one can be Micheal Caine. Having said that I was all out to rip this movie as I am a member of Boycott Hollwood for remaking classics club. I have not seen the original but in my opinion the reason why this version of Alfie is probably not no where near as good as the original due to the fact that times and attitudes towards, gender , race and politics and women have changed dramatically since 1966. Although I felt that Jude Law tries to mad, cocky, carefree and flamboyant he fails miserably and ends up becoming dim-witted arrogant and is one of those people who would love to punch in the face in the bar on Friday because you don't like the way way he looks! I mean the movie just shows Jude Law shagging, talking to the camera and tells people advice about women (not that me or any self respecting player needs to take advice from a pep-squeak who cried when Sienna Miller dumped him). Although there were several valid points made by him during the movie it is true that life breaks in mysterious ways I would know a thing or 2 about that. In general Alfie is a movie which no one really has to watch because it seems like a waste of time , however it feels glad to get it out of my system and not to mention that it proves my point to hate Jude Law even more.ALFIE : 6.2 OUT OF 10HE WAS A PLAYER UNTIL HE GOT PLAYED...

I haven't seen the original, so if you're looking for an historic perspective, look elsewhere.What can I say?: I really like Jude Law. I like his good stage sense; he exudes entertainment value, and (as long as he's well-directed) this makes him worth watching.Nice to see him get a lead role; another commenter complained about his asides to the audience--not as organic as Caine's--but I thought they were well-directed, and I feel Law takes direction very well.Everything is set up beautifully. It's an operatic theme, grand in its simplicity: A man is a loser mix of natural-born girlslayer, while being tragically limited by fundamentally loveless views of relationship; really, just Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin without the songs. Just paint the picture, paint it clearly and well, don't forget to imbue it with humanity (read: humor), thereby making it all that much more tragic. Oh: And don't resolve it. Leave it for us to resolve within ourselves. They could have pulled their punches with a facile resolution; as feelgood as it would be lacking in genuine redemptive power.Interesting question: No doubt some will more or less reflexively reject a remake; some right out of the gate, others after watching it with a suspicious, jaundiced eye. But the important thing is that grand, operatic theme I allude to in the previous paragraph. Do they or do they not deliver those specific goods?: A picture of an incomplete man.I say they do. And, insofar as they do, this is a picture with a big vision.In other words, check it out.