What a great film! I think this is David Mackenzie's best one yet...

Ashton Kuchner was amazing in this - I didn't expect he's be able to pull out a performance like that. Spread is definitely woth going to see if you're a fan of David 'Hallam Foe' Mackenzie. It's good to see him make the transition to Hollywood so easily.

Totally agree with Colan - Another brilliant film from David Mackenzie and he's given us the best performance yet from Ashton Kutcher, it's one that you should go see....

My old gran always told me that if you don't have anything nice to say you shouldn't say anything at all.

She also used to say that warts were a sign a woman was a witch, so what did she know?

"Spread" is a really empty film.

Ricky Gervais has already given us two series and a Christmas special of "Extras" which does exactly what McKenzie attempts here with more style, charm, grace, wit, humour and, most importantly, warmth.

Ashton Kutcher plays...Ashton Kutcher; a beautiful, young, Hollywood lay-about who uses his incredible good looks to seduce older, wealthier and more successful women and then mooches off of them. Oh, and indeed, dear.

You can almost hear Kutchers excited rantings to his misses when this part arrived from his agent...he, no doubt, saw it as a brilliantly witty way to show us that there was more to him than that and, to be fair to him, there might be but this film is so hollow that you could roll it up and use it as a straw for a milkshake.

Gasp in awe at Kutcher and Heche having sex in wild, uncontrollable ways!

Experience a sense of wonder at how gorgeous Anne Heche is!

Puzzle over where exactly her surgeon in the film managed to find any fat cells anywhere on her body to plump up her most delicate of areas!

When Kutcher falls in love with a female version of himself for no apparent reason...they haven't ever spoken to each other about anything other than sex, they have more secrets than the Masons, she is still "hussling" and she isn't a very nice person I almost lost the will to live.

I am a lone in voice in thinking that McKenzie is not a maker of excellent films. I think he makes films that, in places, have some interesting ideas but that ultimately never quite work as a whole. That's certainly the case here as "Spread" borrows ideas from "Midnight Cowboy" but never goes anywhere as dark or as interesting with them.

Mostly agree with the above poster. I think it started off ok but quickly descended into a morality tale, of pretty Ashton having to come to the realisation that his life was in fact quite empty and shallow and that he should follow convention and get a job and steady girlfriend. Arghhh!

I think a more realistic or at least more interesting film would have been had if Ashton had not come to a hollywood realisation but instead carried on seducing older, rich (super skinny) women.

Those eyes, that hair, those braces, that tush....sigh...

Really wanted to poke them out, set light to it, stangle him with them and boot him in it. Right over the edge of Anne Heche's swimming-pool laden, impossibly high/perfect/extravagant/boring balcony.

How disappointing that the hitherto exellent David Mackenzie has created such a wholly uninteresting film. I guess he has spent too much time in the LA sun and it's boiled his brain.

Or perhaps he knew it was guff. Afterall, he didn't turn up to the premiere...at a festival which has supported him for quite a wee while now. Being 'busy with work' is such an unimaginative excuse. Maybe he wanted to pretend it wasn't him wot did it. I would!

Go Paul! And apologies for the rant after the film...

Damn!

Lindsay!!

Right...maybe if you read this you will get in touch.

I would like to hear more of your rant.

Paul