Good movie spoiled by a weak ending

Rating: 5/10 (9 November 1999)

I thought the first 2/3 of the film was excellent, funny and perceptive with a terrific performance by Kevin Spacey. However, starting with the "last day", the movie started to fall apart. I thought the characters went off on tangents unrelated to the previous character development. Worst yet, the coda to the film was completely inconsistent with the rest of the film, pretentious and sappy. Still, a very promising first effort by Sam Mendes