Good story and acting, but the plot is spacey

Rating: 8/10 (26 December 2003)

This is the kind of movie you have to watch at least twice. The movie jumps right into the plot, with all it's intricate characters plotting and scheming, and it's hard to figure out who has what agenda at first.
In a way, I felt it's potential wasn't realized. So much of the real action happenes behind the scenes, and we, the audience, are just shown the result. I'm not sure if this was deliberate, or if the makers were simply challenged with showing the interaction between so many characters in a 2 hour film.
Vaguely speaking, the situations and characters aren't really directly explained(in a traditional fashion), but the audience is left to sort out who everyone is. Anyway, it's a very unique movie and spawns great interest in the story.