A great movie with some good twists and turns. Julia Roberts is Always great in any role that she plays. Julia, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon and Angela Bassett are my favorite actresses. I liked this movie from start to finish. I never saw the Spanish version of which this movie was based on. Chiwetel is good in all of his roles too. I am not a big Nicole Kidman fan, but she has done some good roles and she is cute too. I first remember seeing Nicole years ago in a movie titled "Dead Calm" in 1989.

Very good surprise twist when Julia's {Jess} confesses at home to Ray and Claire that she killed him 13 years ago. I was thinking that it would end in a couple of minutes only to find that she did not kill him, but had him locked up in a self made prison in her home far out in the country where no one can hear him scream. Hum, I wondered after all the years she kept him alive, did she allow him to wash himself up, change his clothes once in a while otherwise he would stink so bad that she would not be able to stay near him.

I liked tension and sexual chemistry between Chiwetel Ejiofor {Ray} and Nicole Kidman {Claire}. You really knew that Ray had serious feelings for her after he nearly beats the suspect into a FUBAR.

Alfred Molina's {Martin} tells Ray that Harvard law don't date junior college, {great line}. It would have been great to see Martin walk in and find Ray and Claire in a romantic compromise which would have made Martin bitter and envious. That would have shut Martin's big mouth with the quickness.

It was disappointing that every time Ray and Claire were in a romantic scene there was an interruption by a cell phone or something to prevent the obvious attraction between them. After they held hands in the car, they should have kissed at least once to seal the deal between them.