Worth seeing, be careful what you believe is real.

Rating: 8/10 (10 February 2002)

If you have not seen people who weren't really there, then this movie is fine to see. At first you are swept up in the main character's quest for "the idea", but then you are excited about his "secret" mission. Then as he is confronted with what's really real and what's not. You are pulling for him to recover and then hit with the fact, he never recovers, never wins the struggle, but that he conquers and subdues his aliment.
At the end I found a few tears creeping out of my eyes. The acting by everybody is good. There's one scene where a visiting old friend is at the house and a close-up shows he has a pierced left ear. Found this distracting and odd in the days when very few men had pierced ears.
The direction is good and the movie moves along very well, fast enough not to dull you. It reminded me a lot of "The Sixth Sense" in the way some characters at first seemed real, but later revealed to be unreal.