A ridiculously overrated film

Rating: 1/10 (31 March 2001)

It's a pity to see a director put so much time and effort into a film and come back with something so awful. This film is pretentious, chaotic, self-indulgent and ridiculously overrated. The first half has its moments, even though Robert Duvall's character is a cartoon, but once Dennis Hopper and Marlon Brando show up and start chewing the scenery as if it's all you can eat at the diner and they've been on a three-day fast, the movie dies. The last twenty minutes or so look as if they were filmed by a three-year-old playing with his father's movie camera. I'm sorry to be so harsh, but this was one of the most unpleasant experiences I've ever had watching a film.