A fine film, but don't look to closely

Rating: 8/10 (27 September 1999)

This is an intelligent film that is immaculately acted and brilliantly shot. I concur with the other reviewers who loved it, but I was also put off by the heavy-handed Message with a capital "M" that was being hammered into the viewer. Every scene has a pretty obvious Purpose to set up something that will obviously occur later. Finally, to pick nits, it wasn't nearly as mean as it could, and probably should, have been. Better than 95% of what is out there, but not as good as it wanted to be.