Like it or hate it - there is so much truth about dating in this film that it's painful. It's nice to see a movie that takes these games, exploits them and slaps them in the face of everybody who sees this - with a really easy to watch, comical twist. He lays out the rules of dating in a unique, preposterous way. He states what really is the obvious... but nobody wants to admit it. Even the prude, uptight square sociopaths should find enjoyment in this movie and see that there is a huge charade in our society called Dating. It does not matter what a guy looks like... it's all about presentation and Donal Logue nails it! I have even used some of the Tao's rules and guess what... THEY WORK!

Great to see a movie with dialog of classy wit, appealing language and a set of actors who seem so real they could be real people. And they have this real life appeal that doesn't have you exclaim at every turn "oh, come on now...!" And the New Mexico scenery has you go "wow!" here and there without doing overdoing.As a matter of fact, this movie manages to avoid 'overdoing it' in almost every department where Hollywood typically overdoes it. There are no car chases. There are no extraordinary fights. There is no violence with all sorts of weaponry and there's no foul language whatsoever. I would rate the dialog/plot line as the most exceptional item, given the fact that it uses the concepts of philosophy (a notoriously difficult subject) with such skill that transitions it into a normalcy of dialog not expected from normal folks. Great movie!

Some have complained that this film doesn't say anything serious about Taoism; others have complained about its dialogue being watered-down from what could have been a super-verbose "Dinner w/ Andre." Sorry - this from a film student who abhors "my dinner w/ andre" - thank God this film ended up as eminently watchable as it was. I avoided seeing it for a long time because I feared exactly the opposite. Firstly, the central observation this film makes about human nature is so spot-on -- namely, that every relationship is comprised of someone chasing and someone being chased -- that almost no direction it could have taken from there would have undermined the essential honesty of it. But framing, as it did, a story of boy meets girl, forgets he slept with her in college, strikes out, becomes desperate, finally gets her back by going against every rule in the book, the story becomes a smart, no-nonsense telling of a quintessential human drama that resonates realistically on so many levels. People have said it's a chick movie; it's not. It's a movie for guys who fear intimacy, its essential message being that a relationship of real value can never be condensed from the vaporous nuance of gamesmanship, slyness, intellect or skill. But at the same time, it demonstrates very realistically how all the above can combine to get the average guy laid far more than he deserves. So not only is it valuable on both these levels, it leaves you nodding your head so many times, mumbling, "that's so f*ing true," that by the end you're pretty much ready to write your own Tao of Steve -- a better one -- and isn't that kind of inspiration the loftiest goal of any good and truthful work of art?

A little too simple. But, funny. Steve is great. I like what he says. Unfortunately, a lot of the film lags. Especially the love story. Ididn't really care what happened. It 's like a bowl of chili that looksappetizing but after a few bites you're like "This is kind of nasty."