Laughable. This film's popularity is utterly inexplicable.

Rating: Null/10 (15 April 2001)

It's difficult to articulate how baffled I am by the masses who adore this film.
The incoherent plot doddered along with a total lack of consistency. Case in point; a character is introduced mid-way through the movie whose presence is then explained by a terribly disconcerting, twenty minute long flashback. I have never studied film as an art, but I suspect this sort of editing is frowned upon in introductory level classes. Nor was this interjected explanation part of an overall, well thought through scheme (See Pulp Fiction) but rather an ineptly written hole that had to be plugged with some sort of (very strained) explanation. When the flashback ended I had pretty much forgotten about the "main" movie and really couldn't have cared less about the final resolution.
The special effects are closer to an elementary school play that hoists a flailing Peter Pan in the air than they are to those found in other, more competent films. Where this movie struggles most to succeed is its biggest failure, it will forever be poor cousin to the Matrix.
The attempts at comedy do elicit laughter, but you find yourself laughing at the actors and not the jokes. The crude humor juxtaposed with the film's obvious effort to achieve success as a piece of art is painful to watch.
I could go on, but I think I've made my point. Please don't spend money on this movie and encourage other producers to create films such as this that lure people to the box office that aren't willing to completely suspend disbelief (and in fact beat their disbelief into a pulp and lock it in a box and run far, far away) and arrogantly expect the writer/director/producer to have created a competent product.