A good starter...

Rating: 8/10 (20 February 2003)

*** POSSIBLE SPOILERS *** Terry Gilliam definitely hasn't lived in vain. This was a wonderful tribute to the man who gave us Brazil and 12 Monkeys and boy, did it work. Dark and confusing. Quite a mystery... then it flunked! When our hero realizes their whereabouts, breaking the outer wall, the movie should have stopped and let us feel miserable. It didn't - it kept on letting him save the world. Where are the signs I missed? Why did John Murdoch have telepathic powers superior to the Strangers? Why did Emma/Anna stand alone at the pier? She couldn't have a memory of it since it had only just been created - as had Shell Beach. No, the last 20 minutes spoiled an otherwise brilliant movie. An excellent movie, in fact.