Another triumph for Kevin Spacey

Rating: 7/10 (13 January 2001)

This strange movie highlights once again why Kevin Spacey is the best actor on the screen today. Along with a faultless cast he turned in a performance that warranted every award that he received.
I cannot say the same for the movie as a whole, for although it delivered a very telling commentary on the mores of modern day America - it did it with much too heavy a hand. It seemed to have every imaginable stereotype among the lead characters and all of them were just too much over the top to be taken too seriously. The storyline offered few surprises and this is a pity, for its premise offered the opportunity to give us something that would be remembered in the years to come.
These quibbles aside, it is an entertaining movie and one that warrants more than one viewing.