Deep, too deep but to be honest not deep enough.

Rating: 4/10 (8 September 2009)

It really is hard to comment on this film without giving the plot away but here goes, I will try.
I watched this film by myself with a nice bottle of chardonnay, quite excited after seeing this is on a lot of peoples top list of a twist at the end movie. And yes, there is a twist but not the kind of twist I would explain. I kind of remember being at junior school and writing a story and at the end of it saying 'It was all a dream'. The ending of course was not a dream, but I now feel as disappointed as my teacher was when she read my story.
Acting, OK - good. Action OK. They even stuck a bit of a teenage romance in there.
Now I like clever films, and particularly clever films with a twist at the end. But the point of those films is that you are left shocked at the end, shocked that you did not see it coming, or shocked that you can't believe it. The problem with this film, for me, is that it was so disjointed there really was not that many options available to me at the end to guess at, apart from obscure ones. The film pointed me needlessly in a more stupid and unbelievable conclusion to what was going to happen so by the end of the film I was very disappointed with what actually happened.
Now I am going to give the film the benefit of the doubt as I have read that you have to see the film more than once to understand the subtleties of the film. However, after watching it once, I really cannot be bothered to watch it again and it is with great disatisfaction I give this film a four as I did make it to the end.