Well, I love Kathleen Robertson, and she is totally and extremely sweet and gorgeous and beautiful here. Well, this is it. There is nothing else to say about this empty waste of time. The plot is all trite and cliché. Menage a trois, two boys on one girl, then there is one more boy, then some more very dubiously obvious plot events, and very beat up and all the usual things and/// and then it is terribly boring. Kathleen is sexy and she does have a cool voice, deep and suave, and yeah, does that save the movie, nay, it never does. Well, the movie is just a seemingly predictable array of all possible clichés one can think about, and please do not expect any plot twists or unique changes. The 90 minutes will simply pass by and then voila, the titles. One can watch it only for the sake of extreme beauty of Kathleen and then quickly forget all about it.

Surfing the cable channels one night, I stumbled on this little movie and was struck first by the gorgeous cinematography: the close-ups of Kathleen Robertson were almost hallucinatory. Despite her choppy bleached hair, ordinary looks, and snippy acting style, she looked so radiantly attractive that it was immediately clear the director was madly in love with her. The director being Gregg Araki, his taste in men was actually better: he clearly enjoyed putting Matt Keeslar and Jonathan Schaech together on a couch, in bed, and in the shower. The movie is Araki's modern version of Design for Living, the old Noel Coward warhorse (note the third-act appearance of a character named Ernest, the bourgeois dullard the heroine almost marries). Too bad Araki didn't have Miriam Hopkins to work with instead of Robertson. Visually, the movie is amazing, but where it falls seriously short is in the writing... to say that Araki is no Noel Coward is like saying that Pauly Shore is no Charlie Chaplin. Like, duh. Somehow, though, this wafer-thin comedy seemed to liberate him from the cynical dead end he'd fallen into in the 90s -- his next movie (with a solid story by Scott Heim) was Mysterious Skin, a riveting, fearless masterpiece that was unquestionably the best American movie of 2004.

After dreading Kathleen Robertson as the self-righteous dilettante, Claire, on Beverly Hills 90210 I never would have believed that I could enjoy her so thoroughly in anything else. But, she not only changed my mind about her, she carried this movie so well that it has become one of my "guilty pleasure" favorites. She is beautiful and silly and fun, which is exactly what she needed to be to make this movie a fun romp instead of a ridiculous bore. Matt Keeslar, Johnathan Schaech and the ever-charming Eric Mabius were excellent playing off of Robertson's Veronica. And lest we forget the sincerely lovable Mike (Kelly MacDonald, who is also sweet and charming as Pia in Entropy), who plays one of the truest best friends I have ever seen captured on film. All in all, I think that Splendor is a great movie to watch if you are up for some lighthearted, mildly kinky, romance. Of course this film could be analyzed out the wazoo, but just sit and watch it for fun the first time, it will get you.

Okay if you like movies with hot guys and cute chicks you have to see Splendor. Its about a girls who lives in L.A. and meets the boys of her dreams and as she strives to make things easier they just get more complicated. And with an ending that you'd love,you'll never want to return this movie back to the video store.