The cast recognised as great characters in top box office movies are implementing themselves in their roles in this movie brilliantly. Love it! Watched it again and again and I see different angles every time. One of the most underrated movies I've seen x

I'm not sure if there will be any spoilers in here but I checked the box anyway in case I accidentally reveal more than I should have. I liked the movie, but there are some aspects that seemed so unrealistic that it somewhat put a damper on it for me. This guy invites a complete stranger to go to a party with him that he wasn't even invited to to begin with. It's in a super rich apartment and they go upstairs into the bathroom to do coke. The chick throwing the party doesn't even like him to begin with, yet she lets him and a stranger go upstairs and disappear for an hour? Not to mention she doesn't want people doing coke in her apartment. Nobody knocks on the door and asks to use the bathroom? Sure, maybe there was more than one, but at parties people have to relieve themselves all the time, and will use the other one if the first one is occupied. Usually there's a line of people waiting. Another thing is they have an enormous pile of blow on a painting on the sink and they're not concerned about someone coming along? It's not like you can pick up a huge pile of powder and just stuff it in a baggy in a couple of seconds. And you never see them picking it back up before going downstairs. And that giant window in the bathroom- I know it had an okay view and everything, but no curtains? Maybe I'm getting picky in my old age.

At some point in its creative gestation, even if only briefly, London had to have been conceived as a stage play. I mean, 80% of the story takes place inside a gigantic bathroom and 99% of it is people blathering on about the sort of thing you blather on about when it's very late and you've had to much to drink or snort. The other 1% is waiting to see if Jessica Biel gets completely nude.Syd (Chris Evans) is an aimless druggie who decides to crash the going away party of his ex-girlfriend London (Jessica Biel). He drags with him Bateman (Jason Statham), a currency trader who's twice as old and twice as f'd up as Syd, and the two of them hang out in the bathroom, doing line after line of cocaine and spilling their guts to each other. A couple of hot chicks (Kelli Garner and Joy Bryant) wander into the john to break up the monotony and there's a series of flashbacks to when Syd and London were still together. It all builds up to Syd finally leaving the toilet behind and confronting London, who initially blows him off like an icy bitch but then flees the party with him, only to have one of those "realistic" endings where they don't actually get back together and the audience is supposed to wallow in the pedestrian tragedy of it all.Amidst all the verbal diarrhea, this film does make it perfectly clear why Syd and London broke up. It's because Syd is an insecure, immature and altogether intolerable dickhead. Why they got together or stayed together is a riddle. Why the viewer should give two craps about Syd's misery after the break up or have any sympathy with his desperate desire to get London back is an mystery. Why London bothers to give Syd the time of day at the party, let alone run away with him and give him a goodbye boink, is an enigma. Syd is a thoroughly uninteresting and unappealing jagoff, which pretty much cripples this motion picture on every level.Jason Statham nearly performs a faith healing on the film to make it almost watchable and not just because he's got hair in this thing. Not only is Bateman more screwed up than Syd, he understands his problems and demonstrates an effort to try and control them. Bateman is a man and is made even manlier by contrast with to the juvenile Syd. The, by far, best scene in the film is when Bateman narrates a flashback about his trip to an sadomasochistic sex club. It's not just because it's such a relief to see something visually provocative after people standing and yammering at each other, but also because Bateman's narration shows him to be grappling with his emotions and compulsions. The second best scene is when he rages at Syd over what ruined Bateman's marriage. Bateman's torment blows all of Syd's self-indulgent suffering out of the water and even the movie seems to understand that. Writer/director Hunter Richards totally recognizes that Bateman is a man and Syd is a boy, but still decides to focus on the boy. I don't know how he wrote this script without appreciating that Bateman was the best character in it and I can only imagine he finally realized it when he tried to edit it all together and saw the only two legitimately good scenes in the whole thing were completely centered on Bateman.Now, if you like films where people just talk and talk and talk, alternating between soul baring revelations and airy BS like the kind you get from college freshmen after their first philosophy class, you might still enjoy London. If you want a movie that moves and a main character who doesn't make you want to poke his eyes out, you should probably give this one a pass.And just in case you're wondering, Biel does not get completely nude, so there goes that 1%.

In New York, the drug-addicted Syd (Chris Evans) is consumed by drugs and booze missing his girlfriend London (Jessica Biel), who broke with him six months ago after a two-year relationship. When Syd finds that London's friends will promotes a going away party to her, he decides to go to the party without invitation. But first he meets the banker and drug-dealer Bateman (Jason Statham) in a bar to buy coke, and he invites his new acquaintance to go to the party with him. While locked in the bathroom with Bateman snorting coke and drinking booze, Syd recalls moments of his relationship with London, inclusive that he had never said "I love you" to his girlfriend despite her countless requests. Bateman also "open his heart" under the influence of cocaine and tells his impotence problem to Syd; in the end he convinces Syd to talk to London.The weird "London" is an entertaining but pointless romance. Jason Statham wearing wig has a great performance and Jessica Biel is incredibly sexy and gorgeous in the role of London. However, the characters are not well developed and, for example, it is never clear how Syd can be wealthy and spend the days using drugs and booze without studying or working. Chris Evans is miscast in the role of a twenty-year old teenager (or young man), and his egocentric and arrogant character never creates the necessary empathy with the viewers or chemistry with London. Most of the dialogs and small talk are funny since most of the characters are coke-head under influence of cocaine and alcohol. Last but not the least, the story brings no message or moral in the end, going to nowhere with the open end. Like the poet says, "love is eternal while it lasts". My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "London"