I Think I Love My Wife? I Know I Hate This Film!!

Last evening I picked up a few films from my local rental facitiltiy and one of those films happened to be titled "I Think I Love My Wife". I find myself to be quite an open minded soul and I can usually find some form of interest in almost all things I do. Therefore, knowing almost nothing about this film before I viewed it did very little to discourage me from bringing it home. I placed the film into the dvd player and pressed that triangular shaped button that most always means "play", and so began my decent into the 7th circle of cinematic hell. In this particular case, the devil came in the form of writer, director, and star Chris Rock.

For those of you who have not yet been enlightened as to what this film entails, I will give a brief synopsis. Richard Cooper (Chris Rock) is a man who seemingly has it all. He is married to a lovely and beautiful woman named Brenda (Gina Torres), and together they have 2 beautiful children. To the outside eye all seems quite well, but Richard finds himself bored to tears with the inane, stale routine that his life has fallen into. It seems each woman he sees while traveling about to and from work becomes more fodder for his fantasies. Lo and behold, an amazingly gorgeous woman from his past named Nikki Tru (Kerry Washington) happens to be in town and she "randomly" looks him up and ends up stopping by his office. Predictability abounds and as you can guess an odd sort of flirtacious "relationship" is struck up between Richard and Nikki. Richard is forced to re-examine his own lifes path and do a bit of soul searching in order to find out where exactly he belongs in this world. Supporting roles are played by Steve Buscemi and Edward Herrman (these two must have owed Chris Rock one hell of a favor) as Richards business partner and boss respectively.