SWEPT AWAY (2002) *1/2 It's all pretty juvenile: the silly plot, the acting, the eroticism. Not terrible on any count-Madonna has as consistently caressed the least common denominator buttons of contemporary culture as anyone, and knows where they are. But there's nothing you want to remember about it, either. She no doubt pushed some buttons to get Guy Ritchie involved, so there are some beautiful nature shots of Greece breaking up the more mundane stuff of rich bitches and a scruffy pretty boy rolling around with his wife. Pseudo-Blue Lagoon for the same audience 30 years and 700 Harlequin romance novels later, then? Something like that.
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