Pretentious nonsense but with good acting and direction

Rating: 4/10 (29 July 2000)

This is NOT a masterpiece. It's a movie with all the ingredients to fool people into thinking that it's a masterpiece! Gratious nudity, paperbags floating peacefully in the wind(Forrest Gump anyone?), rose petals everywhere etc. When people see theese things they think that it's a deep and artistic movie and they feel inteligent because they understand what's happening in it. And it's no wonder that they understand the sentiment and moral of the story because Sam Mendez litteraly hammers it into their poor brains. Despite what many people think it doesn't make you think because there's nothing left out for your own imagination. Needless to say I was very disappointed with this movie and I only gave it a rating of 6 because of the good acting by Kevin Spacey and some quite funny jokes. By the way, I realy dislike the sexual exploitation of minors in this film - there's plenty of pedophiles out there and for them this movie is dream come true.