This tragic event brings Joe together with an odd man named Jed. The two strangers become entangled in a psychological game of love. Daniel Craig plays Joe as a man who doesn’t believe in love. Jed (Rhys Ifans) deeply believes that love is the only thing that is important. In some ways the movie feels like FATAL ATTRACTION but rather than an obsessive woman, it is a man after another man.

The film is based on Ian McEwan's book and is a philosophical thriller. Director Roger Michell focuses in on how Joe hasn’t taken his relationship with his girlfriend (Samantha Morton) into marriage and how Jed totally obliterates the comfort of Joe’s normal life.

Rhys Ifans and Daniel Craig are excellent in their roles and it’s pretty easy to feel the power of their performances. Michell uses Craig and Ifans like to chess pieces carefully maneuvering them into positions to strike the other. It’s never really certain who will come out the victor.