Easily Best Picture of 1999

Rating: 10/10 (11 April 2000)

The film swallowed me from beginning to end. I am a huge fan of dark comedy and this was the most mature and refined piece of dark comedy I've seen in longer than I want to recall. All performances were fantastic. I will take issue in the more fanciful moments when Lester is going through his reverie sequences, but that is just a matter of taste. Mr. Mendes used those sequences well and consistantly; I'm just not a fan of that kind of montage.