Funnily enough, I saw a test screening of this film a couple of years before it went on general release, and I'm fairly sure there was a sex scene between the two characters later in the film that seemed intended to show that they were being brought closer together by their experiences. This was absent from the version I watched today on Amazon Prime.
Regarding the point some people have raised about not knowing what was wrong between the couple earlier on - you seem to have missed the part where it's mentioned that Perry slept with one of his students.
I just watched the film on Netflix DVD and neither of these scenes is included, so there must have been a decision made to delete them for wider release.
I agree with the OP in general. I really didn't care about the couple/their marriage. I don't know if it was the story, the acting, direction, who knows, but I didn't care about them because they didn't seem to care about each other more than going through the motions of a relationship even when they are at the safe house, Perry is off to himself and Gail is sitting on the balcony/porch with Dima's daughter. There just wasn't any warmth there. Yes, they seemed to reconnect in the one scene later when Gail remarks that they are perhaps better at healing other people's problems, but again, it was all rather pedestrian. They didn't even revisit their relationship at the end, which I found odd considering they started the film with their problems. Maybe since time had passed they could have shown Dima's influence by showing them being more loving with each other or even with a child or expecting one, especially since Dima told Perry that Gailw as a good woman and not to let her go. So, yeah, I agree with the OP on the ball drop.
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misteramara
7 years ago
The line about Perry sleeping with a student is definitely in the release version that I saw - it's about half an hour in, when they get back to their home in London and have an argument ("Everything has consequences Perry - You *beep* one of your students, there are consequences. You run errands for a Russian mobster, same thing"). The later sex scene is gone for sure though.
Either way, I sort of agree, there isn't a lot of chemistry between them and their increased closeness over the course of the film is marginal at best. That's one of the aspects of the film that least impressed me.
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bellaalma
7 years ago
To clarify my post, I was referring to the sex scenes being edited and cut from the Netflix version I watched. However, the line about sleeping with the student and consequences was definitely there.
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ktowny
7 years ago
"sex scenes being edited and cut from the Netflix version"
This is interesting. Does Netflix get different versions of the DVD? I just rented the DVD from a local video store (yes, they still exist) and the first sex scene was there, as well as the scolding Perry took about sleeping with a student. The second sex scene was absent.
"Loves turned to lust and bloods turned to dust in my heart"
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