The idea is better than the realisation

Rating: 1/10 (19 February 2001)

This movie was really disappointing as the idea sounds much better than the realisation actually is. The characters are rather stereotypical and the dialogues convulsively try to reveal some sort of psychological and philosophical truths (which are only platitudes in my point of view). One of the most overrated movies I have ever watched. One could have made so much more out of it...
*** SPOILERS: The worst thing about this movie is that three of the six caged persons are killed by the protagonist Holloway, who turns out to be some kind of psycho at the end of the movie. I really found it annoying to see those characters escaping all those sophisticated traps just to be killed by one out of themselves. That did not make any sense to me. And it was quite unsatisfying for me, since the common summaries suggest that the caged protagonists are fighting against the traps and NOT against each other. ***