Stunningly amoral

Rating: Null/10 (30 July 2000)

I was really looking forward to seeing this movie; from what I had heard, it seemed that it was very funny.
Well, it _was_ very funny, although the movie's weirdness seemed at times to be a bit forced, as if it were being weird just for weirdness' sake. (I won't get into details about the movie, partly because I don't want to spoil it for anyone, and partly because it's too weirdly convoluted.) But as much as I laughed (especially at the beginning), and as much as I really wanted to enjoy this movie, I came away from it feeling strangely hollow.
What really turned me off is that all the characters (including, sadly, Cameron Diaz, who I _really_ wanted to like) turned out to be such jerks! I'm talking no core moral values here! No mercy! No pity! No looking out for the other guy! I mean it, there was not one person in this movie who had any ultimately redeeming characteristics.
Maybe that was the real message of the movie - that people are, at heart, conniving back-stabbing b*stards, and you're best off not trusting anyone. If so, this movie did its job superbly.