ok, so

Rating: Null/10 (8 April 2000)

i didn't like it either. it is highly overrated and after reading some of the other comments here i have to agree: if you like this genre, go see happiness instead. although something bothered me in that one also, it was still much better!
it's cheap to make controversial scenes in their own right. american beauty is a hollow film, merely scratching the surface of sociological and other issues. maybe the original idea was good, but what comes out from the oven is not very juicy.
and it seems "intelligent american humour" is just something i don't quite understand. what in gay hell is so ravingly funny about suburban frustrated family man fondling himself in a shower? or in bed next to his mamamaterial wife?
kevin spacey is a good actor although in this one it seems he's become larger than life. is that inevitable when you get too much fame and publicity?
i have to say i could quite appreciate those incredible eyes of the boy next door but otherwise - no more spaceyfilms for me, thanks.