A better title would be "Hollywood Offal"

Rating: 1/10 (28 December 2000)

If they gave Oscars for most preposterous and dishonest movie then this piece of tripe gets my vote! Remember those strange kids in high school who spent too much time by themselves? This is the "deep" movie they'd make if somebody threw a few tens of millions at them. All the Usual Suspects are heaved at the viewer (spoiler alert here!): psycho teens who are really just misunderstood, self-absorbed materialistic suburbanites, middle-aged men who suddenly see clearly and toss off their chains, and of course, right at the top of the checklist, the cruel son-beating homo-hating-but-really-self-loathing-homo-himself military dad. The sheer pretentious awfulness of this movie is breathtaking! This is not art, it is anti-art, which seems to fill a need to believe in a hyper-corrupt middle class suburbia, much like UFO abduction stories fill another need to believe. This movie is not profound, not insightful, not true. What this movie is is thoroughly degrading and degenerate.