all the hypes?

Rating: 5/10 (25 November 2000)

The first time I saw this movie, I am not sure how I feel about it. It seems different from the other movies from the cinematography and story development aspects, but I got the feeling that the movie is written solely to be different. The story doesn't have a very good flow, it's like forcing pieces of puzzles together. Sure if you throw in murder, nudity, in-closet homosexuality, adultery, drug, child abuse, dysfunctional family, insanity, masturbation into any one movie, it'll be disturbing (I think that's the director's purpose). So I am not sure what the other movie reviewers were talking about, the overall impression I got from the movie is anything but beautiful. And the work of the plastic bag literaly gave me goose bumps, that's how lame I think it is. But Kevin Spacey's role, Lester definitely gives us some laughs and is the only reason to see this movie.
This film isn't terrible, but certainly not brilliant. If one must say it's brilliant, then kudos to Sam Mendes who manages to cram all the evil doers into the two hour film.