why are you reading all these?

Rating: Null/10 (3 October 1999)

If you havent seen the movie, stop reading immediately and see it first. Because some spoilers from others will ruin things for you, and a few remarks are anti-hype-sters who are intent on deflating it, (for SOME reason those posters have ENJOYED using partly CAPITALIZED words).
Ok? so you've seen it? I stumbled into this movie without knowing even an inkling about it, having been under a rock for a month.. people were taking single seats to get a good view, which I thought was a good sign.
When it started, with Kevin Spacey velvet hammer voice and the flydown "this is my neighbourhood", "this is my street", I knew this wasnt a movie where I would not check my watch, fidget or even cough. I dont even recall hearing any junk food noises. When it finished, about, oh, 10 minutes later, a good part of the audience applauded!! (this is NY, only a few people in NY movies this year bothered to cheer! and they were wearing chewbacca suits).
I just sat there, stunned, and then struggled to get out of the theatre... not to move on, but to find a quiet place to pick over some scenes. Parts of my feelings matched those I had when pulling myself out of a car wreck that had left me with just one tiny cut but demolished the car... a feeling that I had been in the passenger in an elaborate car crash, but had been handed back my life.
Oh this is all very dramatic. As someone further down says, in possibly the understatement of the IMDB, it's certainly worth $9.50... there are so many scenes.. to those who think Annette was too stereotypical? forget it! She portrayed the power cassette tape playing sales lady to a T, gun-firing, social climbing, success projecting, secretly crying sales people are not stereotypes by accident. They exist in great quantities. And when she collapsed into an armful of his clothes at the end, she was real enough for me.
Anyway, go see this, dont listen to anyone, especially dont read reviews like this and any others here, and unless you've got some chip on your shoulder, you'll have a great laugh, and if you're lucky, it'll evoke something in you that you forgot movies are capable of doing.
Deconstruct it later if you will, when it ceases to enthrall, but dont spoil it for people! for many people the end of this movie will leave them with the most alive feeling they've had all year!