Dark, but WOW, we need more movies like this

Rating: 10/10 (29 October 2004)

This movie was a bit melancholy and more than a bit dark, but it was mentally so much fun that I have to list it as in the best 10 I've seen fresh (i.e., not counting old favorites I've re-watched) in the last 5 years -- perhaps longer. It's certainly the best movie I've seen in recent memory. Our society is being fed such pathetic, idiotic, lowest-common-denominator dribble, that it is thrillingly refreshing when one of those rare gems that actually engages the brain and spurs thought outside itself is offered. (Don't get me wrong: I have a huge soft spot for Jackie Chan, who offers no cerebral stimulation, and The Little Mermaid's about as brainless as they come, but I love it.) It's just so much fun following various possibilities, paths di- and converging, coming full circle again and again. I truly crave entertainment of this sort/caliber, and beg Richard Kelly to give us more!