Garbage!

Rating: 1/10 (15 April 2004)

Did all of you watch a different movie than my wife and I watched?! This movie was garbage. Here's why:
1. The camera constantly shook, making it difficult to watch without getting sick to my stomach. It reminded me of the Blair Witch Project - which at least was interesting aside from the camera shaking.
2. All of the characters were unlikable. I couldn't care less about any of them.
3. There was no plot or purpose. Okay, I understood the premise of erasing memories and Joel's desire to hold onto the memories after committing to have them erased. But why all of the pointless, disjointed scenes? One after another. Pointless, meaningless snippets of their lives together. Who cares? Over and over and over until I felt like screaming, `Enough already! Get on with it!' There was no mystery or anticipation of something about to happen.
4. Weird new subplots were constantly added that only confused this confusing mess even further.
About 3/4 of the way through the movie, I turned to my wife and said, `What do you think?' Her response was, `This is the worst movie I've ever watched.' We walked out of the theatre glad to be out of there. I couldn't care less about missing the ending because, in our view, there was no story. This was only the second movie I've ever walked out on.
The whole thing seemed like a bad drug trip. What are you people who liked this movie smoking? For the record, we use IMDB to decide on a movie to see. I consistently enjoy most highly rated movies. But this highly rated movie was horrible.