Extreme soft porn with a story or two hung on it. Could do way better with your laptop. Men are stupid pigs and troubled children, women are smart... but really they are all c#*%s. Go figure. Another scene into the depravity and greed in the neurotic, sociopathic society we are ruled by. Huzza!!

Fairly well-acted (including Sasha Grey). This film feels more like a slightly experimental project testing the capabilities of early RED cameras instead of a driven flourish of Soderbergh's.

It tries a little too hard to have a message but it is of-the-moment, contemporary, thoughtful and experimental.

Slow, boring, uninteresting. Should be called a day in the life. Who cares

completely pointless and useless. garbo-trash. horrendous. why wouldn't they use an actress???? why was the acting in this movie less than straight-to-dvd level quality. worse than network drama acting. why did you need a porn star? especially since most actresses would have done everything required for this role, while also bringing talent. it was a little nudity. i don't think there was even a sex scene. so why in the hell would they not cast the hundreds of actresses that would have loved to start in a soderbergh movie. my theory is soderbergh was obsessed with sasha grey and wanted to do her. and her boyfriend was horrendous. even when he wasn't saying anything he was bad. also, critics are worst (1 viewing)

This lacks the depth and substance of the 온라인카지노추천 show of the same name (aired 2016) produced by Soderbergh. I suppose one could say this is a good start, but it's too vaguely built and the film reads more like a jumbled essay with no thesis or plot development.

This was good. Real good. And, damn, Sasha is so fiiiine!

I just watched this in May 2017. I watched the Showtime series before this and loved it. I expected the same with this but it didn't deliver. I kept waiting for some action to occur... Talk about a sleeper. Oh and the week azz boyfriend was despicable. I almost turned it off because of him. What a punk. Anyway, this movie was a big letdown. 1 star for Sasha being cute.

Confusing & uninvolving.

Enjoyed it a lot, but felt maybe the writing was a drawback, and stopped it from giving its total outcome, and hold the pieces together to form a solid picture in your mind.

Embodies the zeitgeist of 2008. The movie itself isn't much to write home about, but former porn starlet Sasha Grey performed surprisingly well.

Sasha Grey perfectly conveyed Chelsea's, a.k.a. Christine, cold, detached, distant and shielded personality as we follow her through scenes shot in upscale bars, high-end restaurants and luxury apartments plying her trade. Not a take-charge type of escort; her passive listening and flat voice made her a poor conversationalist; she interacted as a quiet chameleon riding along with the flow and direction that her date took. I found it remarkable how quickly she clammed-up or became evasive when her female friend, boyfriend or journalist asked reasonable questions that were on topic. Her behavior was similar to famous sports figures, known for their reluctance to talk to the press with a preference for stale curt answers to questions, because they had big secrets to hide - Tiger woods and Lance Armstrong come to mind. All her clients were scared and psychologically needy men, desperately craving to talk (sometimes rant) to her inexpressive face. For some clients sex was a secondary priority. We understood she wanted to be financially independent of her parents and boyfriend. She was shrewdly focused on preserving her sizable portfolio during the financial crisis, which evident in meetings with a financial advisor and others. Her career ambition was to move up a level in the escort business in order to make more money, but you could see she was as lonely as her clients. Even her brief journal entries consisted of nothing more than what she wore, their general conversation topic and bland mention of their sex act; no insight and no indication of her thoughts or feelings. On one occasion we see Chelsea's vulnerability when she fell for a handsome family-man client with whom she made plans to spend the weekend, but got stood up. Her emotionless mask cracked, finally, letting out her tears. See saw him again near the film's end; leaving us to wonder was this her break through moment or a relationship dead end? Chelsea's enigmatic character was preserved throughout the days of this voyeuristic ride, when she did not develop or open-up to an extent that would have allowed the audience to understand or relate to her. She had one passion (a kind of astrology), her main interests were shopping, her opinions mirrored her clients, and her fear was losing her money. With clients or friends, she did not come across as devious, vengeful, playful or spunky: just a self-centered nothing. As a blank canvas she allowed the clients to paint her as whoever and whatever they needed to be satisfied. By expending little intellectual or emotional capital in a few hours' time she could effortlessly earn her escort money and then leave. Chelsea was not capable of providing an exotic 'girlfriend experience': it was a 'sounding board with sex experience'.

This film combines the rare mix of being both completely dull and at times painful to watch. The cinematography invokes a "just out of film school" quality that makes us wonder if Soderbergh is attempting to try every cliche angle and shot that he can without linking it to a cohesive plot, or script. Cinematography is meant to enhance the story and emotion of a script, however in this case, Soderbergh is so anxious to produce "artistic" shots that he completely forgets what film he's making. The acting may be even worse than the screenplay. Sasha Grey is completely void of talent or emotion. As a porn actress, you'd think that she'd be able to act a little however, it appears her only talent lies in faking organisms. Do yourself a favor and avoid this film like the plague.

It's rather an objective experience since you don't really feel connected to any of the characters (which is, I assume, exactly the point of the movie.) The plot is minimalistic and you will feel emotionally detached, but it's still worth seeing just for the visuals. The Girlfriend Experience delves deep into human nature and psychology.

4/10 hard to describe that movie

Beautiful cinematography barely saves this film from becoming nothing more than idle banter on politics and the economy. There's something about love and the strain her job puts on a true relationship, but it's thrown to the side to leave room for more talks of money and business.

Sasha's character is great and all men need to sit down and shut up.

Gritty, disturbing with an almost documentary like realism. I can understand the turn off with the experimental approach to the timeline of events but it's nonetheless an engaging and emotional experience for those patient enough to be endure the aimlessly slow pace.

Soderbergh wanted to bang Sasha Grey.. that's why this movie was made... It shows.

The acting was fine, but I just don't see what the narrative is. The film establishes that she's a hooker with a boyfriend, and then she falls for a client but he can't leave his wife. Meanwhile she's left her boyfriend. OK....why was this film made?