Fox and Chestnut, with their fine looks and fine wardrobes, are all dressed up for a party that most guests bailed on in the last days of the old millennium.

Few recent movies have conceived their central female character more contemptuously -- a fanatic for a lifestyle that appears to have come from the bestselling The Rules and someone who is obviously set up for a satiric fall.

Doesn't anyone get sick of this same old routine?

The trouble with Two Can Play That Game is that the heroine, despite her smarts and accomplishment, is so unlikable. Arrogant, manipulative, smug, and overflowing with bad advice, she's meant to be a role model for women with man troubles everywhere.