Already the most overestimated film of the decade

Rating: 5/10 (30 January 2000)

That's just a digest of all the American-Dream-an-Horror-Movies of the last decade, such like "Short Cuts" (at the Drama End) and "Happiness" (at the Comedy End). Disappointing: No sublime critique of American culture or society, just a story of a simple All-American-Guy who finds himself and his virility, and, for the viewer, in a not very convincing way. Sometimes I associated, sorry, an ordinary sitcom setting... This genre is called, normally, Tragi-Comedy, but this movie doesn't place the tragic and comic elements at the right places: You don't laugh about a mirror of your own ridiculous and poor lives, but about slapstick sequences in totally dramatic and severe contexts. The parts don't fit together, and especially Spacey and Bening don't act in a way, that I could see over these mistakes... In Germany, they advertised the film as "the best for five years". My opinion, it's already the most overestimated of the coming decade.