i hate movies that try and be too clever

Rating: 5/10 (18 January 2005)

I didn't like this movie. Not because it was particularly bad. I thought the acting was good, special effects were fine and the soundtrack great. What spoilt it for me was the hype. Having being told it was 'thought-provoking' and 'an amazing movie' i found myself annoyed by the utter nonsense that was being delivered. It felt like the writer had created the weirdest story who could possibly come up with then desperately tried to find meaningful messages to explain it. This movie was obviously aimed at impressionable youths who try to impress people who ask their favourite movie by coming up with something obscure and weird, something with 'meaning'. The kind of people that have inevitably made this film a 'cult classic'. Which is a shame, because it is neither weird enough nor clever enough nor obscure enough to be given this title.