2nd worst movie of all time

Rating: Null/10 (16 February 2001)

After Pleasantville, this is the worst movie I have ever seen. It is entirely pretentious, dull and stupid. The movie proceeds at a snails pace leading towards an absurdly obvious climax that has been telegraphed for the entire movie utilizing a flash back/flash forward technique copied from other movies. We get to see snippets of something that hasn't yet happened, or perhaps it has, and we are supposed to play the art of dutiful detective and figure out what it all means. The creators of the film would have you believe this is a cerebral tour de force, an intellectual masterpiece, a thinking man's buck rogers. And they try desperately to make it a smart movie. A cryptic plot can be interesting. But this movie is deliberately cryptic and convoluted - it tries to elevate itself to an intellectual plane far out of it's reach. This movie is not another 2001,...it's a 2001 minus 2001.