In Montreal, the unemployed fashion designer Sophie Malaterre (Karine Vanasse) is summoned by Claire Maras (Maxim Roy) to show her work to her boss. When Sophie arrives in the company, Clare apologizes and tells that her boss is on vacation and will return only two months later.
Clare invites Sophie to have lunch with her and tells Sophie about the website switch.com, where it is possible to switch houses with a stranger for vacation. Sophie seeks an apartment in Paris nearby the Eiffel Tower that belongs to Bénédicte Serteaux (Karina Testa) and they change apartments.
Sophie arrives in Paris on Saturday morning and has a dream day riding a bicycle through the touristic area. However, on the next morning, policemen break in the apartment and arrest Sophie while she is having a bath. Detective Damien Forgeat (Eric Cantona) interrogates Sophie believing that she is Bénédicte and she learns that a beheaded body was found in her room. Further, all the evidences of her life has been deleted and she can not prove that she is Sophie.
"Switch" is a thriller with a promising premise but with an awful screenplay. The story has a great beginning until the scene when the police arrest Sophie. From this moment on, the story is a sequence of ridiculous and unreasonable scenes.
First, how difficult would be to prove the true identity in the present days? I do not know French laws, but where is the lawyer to defend Sophie? Sophie's reaction escaping from Forgeat is absurd for an innocent woman in a foreign country. Why didn't she call her mother from the police station when she was arrested? What about sending her mother to her house in Montreal without telling her who Bénédicte is? What about her mother taking a shotgun from the trunk of her car in a Rambo style? How could the Iranian / Pakistanis guy foresee that Sophie would seat in that bench in the park?
The motive claimed by Bénédicte Serteaux to kill her half-brother and destroy Sophie's life is awful and the abrupt conclusion is another terrible moment. In the end, the best that "Switch" can offer is the view of the Eiffel Tower with lights and the nice breasts of the lead actress. My vote is three.
Title (Brazil): "Identidade Trocada" ("Switched Identity")
Clare invites Sophie to have lunch with her and tells Sophie about the website switch.com, where it is possible to switch houses with a stranger for vacation. Sophie seeks an apartment in Paris nearby the Eiffel Tower that belongs to Bénédicte Serteaux (Karina Testa) and they change apartments.
Sophie arrives in Paris on Saturday morning and has a dream day riding a bicycle through the touristic area. However, on the next morning, policemen break in the apartment and arrest Sophie while she is having a bath. Detective Damien Forgeat (Eric Cantona) interrogates Sophie believing that she is Bénédicte and she learns that a beheaded body was found in her room. Further, all the evidences of her life has been deleted and she can not prove that she is Sophie.
"Switch" is a thriller with a promising premise but with an awful screenplay. The story has a great beginning until the scene when the police arrest Sophie. From this moment on, the story is a sequence of ridiculous and unreasonable scenes.
First, how difficult would be to prove the true identity in the present days? I do not know French laws, but where is the lawyer to defend Sophie? Sophie's reaction escaping from Forgeat is absurd for an innocent woman in a foreign country. Why didn't she call her mother from the police station when she was arrested? What about sending her mother to her house in Montreal without telling her who Bénédicte is? What about her mother taking a shotgun from the trunk of her car in a Rambo style? How could the Iranian / Pakistanis guy foresee that Sophie would seat in that bench in the park?
The motive claimed by Bénédicte Serteaux to kill her half-brother and destroy Sophie's life is awful and the abrupt conclusion is another terrible moment. In the end, the best that "Switch" can offer is the view of the Eiffel Tower with lights and the nice breasts of the lead actress. My vote is three.
Title (Brazil): "Identidade Trocada" ("Switched Identity")