Good? Yes. Overrated? Definitely.

Rating: 5/10 (29 March 2000)

This movie is neither profound or thought provoking. It is like watching a train wreck. It is preachy without knowing what it is trying to preach. Its protagonist quits his job to smoke pot and enjoy life, something up until that point he had not being doing. Fine. I can dig that. Especially when it is Kevin Spacey as the protagonist. But since you know he dies from the beginning narration it's kind of hard to care. And since he is the only thing interesting in the movie it was impossible to get into to.
Acting is good, mainly Spacey. Directing is okay. Writing is okay. Did not deserve all those oscars. But by default it won. Why? because this has been a bad year in movies. Schlock city.
Tired of the whole dysfunctional family thing. I don't wanna watch people not being able to relate to people. Or bad people being bad to other people. People People People...Soylent green is made of people and they weren't all bad.Sorry. Yes, everyone is flawed but I don't need to pay $7.50 to be reminded of that.
Sixth Sense was better. That should of won oscars. At least that would of encouraged better movies.
Given this the oscars is just giving a green light to any independent movie chump to make another twisted people flick.
We already have enough PT Andersons.
In short Kevin Spacey made this move. Deserved the oscar. The rest of those gold statues should be returned.