There's only 4 characters and you hate all of them!

Rating: 3/10 (20 April 2005)

Where do I begin? Yes this is a clever movie, lots of clever touches. Like for example the constant time shifting that they do in it, one scene could be set a year after the previous scene, and it's upto you to guess how much time has passed between each scene and all of the events that have taken place in between. Then there was that scene in the strip club where Larry (Owen) is badgering Alice (Portman) into admitting her real name, which he already knows is Alice, but she keeps telling him her stripper name, Jane Jones; and then at the end of the movie we find out that Jane Jones was her real name all along (fast-forward or reverse controls to look at her passport), not Alice Ayers.
Yes, all of this was very clever indeed. But a clever movie is not necessarily a good movie. The most ironic thing about this movie is that for a character-driven movie, there's no character development! Not one of the characters in this movie was likable, again ironic considering there were only 4 characters in the entire movie. All of the characters were mind-numbing flakes. You want to slap them all at one point or another. Take a pass on this movie, a much better movie was "Eternal Sunshine of A Spotless Mind" with Jim Carry and Kate Winslet.