This one's a zebra

Rating: 10/10 (10 January 2000)

There are so many tacky one-trick movies made these days (and many of them go on to earn a small fortune)that when I first saw a trailer for this movie and it described how it was about a man who finds a portal into someone else's head my immediate reaction was to wonder what sort of crap was going to be foisted on us now. But this time I was wrong. It reminds me of a quote from a book I read recently about horses and zebras. Its something along the lines that because horses are common and zebras are rare (at least they are outside of Africa) then if you hear hooves coming its likely to be horses. Every now and again though the unexpected happens and thats how I feel about this movie. From the opening minutes of this film you know you're seeing something unique and part of the brilliance of this movie is that it never slackens its pace. Surely one of the best movies of the last 10 years. It deserves the awards its already won and should go on to get a whole lot more.