Good, but not that excellent...

Rating: 8/10 (29 January 2000)

All the enthusiasm about this movie made me very excited to see it.
I was a little bit disappointed.
Though sometimes interesting and well-done, the movie still seemed to be far from that extraordinary experience which was promised. Many characters were not normal enough to attack the "American dream" at all - and the story was sometimes stressed and quite unrealistic.
Though the actors play well and some new talents have shown their abilities, this movie is just not that special that it earns all the hype.
And the dialogues are sometimes boring, sometimes dull. And many character twists are too foreseeable.
Still, it is worth watching. But as a European, it just did not strike me as that new and thought-provoking...