a terrible waste of time and celluloid

Rating: 1/10 (13 August 2002)

This film, in short, is crap. This film offers an uninteresting set of characters (none of which have any kind of arc), juvenile direction, fairly poor acting (which is surprising, considering the talent all these people possess), and an utterly unsatisfying, i'm-trying-too-hard-to-impress-you ending. While i won't give the ending away, i must say this: after the movie's "twist" ending, i honestly wondered what on earth possessed the screenwriter, director, producers, actors, and crew to actually make this movie. There are few endings i absolutely hate, but this film tries too hard to create a dramatic tension by deconstructing reality within the film, then invalidates itself by copping-out of any kind of resolution--which isn't entirely accurate, given that the tension is never really there. At the end, if you think about the ending of the movie, you too should gape in wonder at the awe-inspiring pointlessness and stupidity of an ending that retroactively invalidates your entire viewing of the film. So, i recommend you skip it, and get your root canal instead--i guarantee the pain of root canal work will actually benefit you more in the end than this piece of crap, and it'll probably be less painful to boot.