Worth seeing, but let's not go overboard!

Rating: 7/10 (3 December 1999)

If anyplace still has midnight movies, this would make a perfect one. Clever and quite, quite off-the-wall, it is certainly the most unique movie of the year. There are a lot of things to like about it, but somehow it just didn't really do it for me. I certainly didn't fall in love with it like most other commentors have. Maybe if the atmosphere hadn't been so relentlessly dank and the characters a tad bit more likable, my emotions could have been gripped more, but as it was I just left the theater respecting the intelligence that went into it, grateful for a couple of decent laughs and knowing that I'll have basically forgotten it in a few hours. I think people are just so hungry for innovative stories and something different from the usual Hollywood product that they have quite substantially overrated this movie - as it stands currently, this has been rated the 15th greatest film of all time by IMDb users. Huh?