Beautiful visuals, plot fell a little short.

Rating: 7/10 (9 October 2000)

The cinematography is beautiful in this film. It has a dark visual edge to it, and every scene has a vividness to it that reminds me of Technicolor. The plot line runs a little thin, as it amounts, in the end, to be little more than a Twilight Zone episode; but you know that from the start, and with the suspense building all along, it's hard not to get sucked into the plot, shallow though it is.
There's a lot of very cool imagery in the film, both visually, and symbolically. The psychological implications are great, for those of us that are philosophically/psychologically inclined. With a little bit more of a creative twist to the plot, or maybe even just a little darker edge to the ending, I would have rated this one a classic. As it is, I still highly recommend it.