Slightly less boring than a hair-grooming 'how-to-video'

Rating: 1/10 (26 December 2004)

Quite simply, the most over-rated film in history. I get the sinking suspicion that the reason this film regularly appears on the best films lists is because people think that's what they're supposed to say. It's like saying you enjoyed wasting the better part of your adult life suffering through Tolstoy's groaner, 'War and Peace.' Or worse, nodding appreciatively as you endure the ear-drum piercing agony of anything Philip Glass has composed. Because, your cool friends say it's a master-work of music. Egad, spare me. Look, you can appreciate the innovative camera work of young Mr. Wells. But, that does not mean you cannot admit this is perhaps the most painful film-watching experience of your life. If I hadn't fallen asleep the first three times I tried to make it through this tedious movie, I would have found myself, as I did when I finally made it through the film the fourth time, wishing I'd done something more enjoyable..like cleaned the grout in the shower.