Self important flaw

Rating: Null/10 (14 November 2003)

What people call a love or hate film, pinning down what rubbed me the wrong way about this film is difficult. Friends expected me to enjoy this but I found it self indulgent and grating despite the curious initial x-files-like turn of events. What I would like to know is why the world is ending or if an explanation for it was given in the film? I feel it is a device just to wow the audience or just to add unnecessary weight to the protagonist's heroic gesture to end his own existence. I hate this selfish vein in film where the hero's story exceeds the logical constraints or plot integrity of the world the film has created eg. The Matrix - Neo/Trinity magic kiss or how phones allow entry/exit to matrix world despite being a construction of the matrix (a historical construction of the machines themselves who never chose a pre alexander bell time period?). I fear it's a trend reflecting our growing selfishness or self-interestedness (if thats a word) along with an obsession with hard to swallow twists that on reflection involve a chain of events that would require the forsight of a god to engineer eg. Collateral damage.