I just did not get this movie.

Rating: 3/10 (1 December 2005)

Most of John Cusack's films I enjoy. He is very good in comedies, drama, and action films.
I find him an incredibly funny actor. His ability to wear a deadpan expression after delivering an incredibly funny line is amazing. He comes across as very sincere. It makes it easy to empathize with his characters.
My whole problem was with the plot.
The premise of the movie was just too weird for me to get into. To say it was surrealistic is to put it mildly.
I realize that the idea of the movie was to take a a sort of absurdly improbably "what if" and fully explore that idea.
In that respect, I think it does a good job.
It explores the implications of this possibility with admirable depth and detail. The actors play their characters believably - even if the plot itself is pretty unbelievable.
I enjoy science fiction, horror, and fantasy films. I realize, honestly, that most of these films plots are completely or at least mostly implausible as well. However, in watching them, I feel a sense of "suspension of disbelief" that I just did not experience with this movie.
I realize this film enjoys cult film status. It is just not the cult for me, I am afraid.
I watched this film at home, when I was by myself. Maybe that was part of the problem.
I do sort of imagine this film could be more enjoyable if you watch it with a group of friends - especially at home, not in a theater. Then you could exclaim about one bizarre scene or speculate about what will happen in the next.
A group of close friends, in a very relaxed, informal, rowdy atmosphere - who enjoy a taste for peculiar movies - could probably get pretty into it.