I am amazed that this film won all those oscars!

Rating: Null/10 (5 April 2000)

It's not that I don't think it deserved them. Let me state right from the start that I am not a big Hollywood fan - I much prefer less mainstream stuff - but comments from people I respect encouraged me to see this. I was not disappointed. It really made me think - nothing was as it seemed - goodies were baddies, baddies were goodies, right was wrong and wrong was right. The most surprising thing for me was that it did not have any of the cliches I expected to find in a Hollywood movie. But it still swept the board. Let's see lots more like this, and let's hope Sam Mendes makes some more good stuff soon. I have to say it reminded me a bit of Blue Velvet and some other stuff like that, but they were more mainstream weird.