Wildly overrated with little redeeming value

Rating: 6/10 (11 February 2001)

No one, and I mean NO ONE can convince me that this film is better than Wolfgang Petersen's DAS BOOT. Absolutely ridiculous that users have given this trite piece of trendy garbage a better review. . .I challenge anyone to view both movies back to back and conclude anything except that DAS BOOT is the superior film!
The actual film seems to be a bland variation of two Terry Gilliam films, "12 monkeys" and "Brazil", which both did the theme of dystopia much better, thank you. I won't give anything away because there really isn't anything to GIVE AWAY! The film is a pleasant little time waster but certainly nothing more than that.
There are no cinematic breakthroughs, no ground breaking social commentary. The acting by Edward Norton is fine, but Brad Pitt seems to be recycling his roles from other movies. Helena Bonham Carter vamps up the screen for a while, but has a disposable role. The film is filled with cameos that camouflage the fact that the main characters are not as interesting as we'd be led to believe.
The final plot twist left me saying, "so what", and now that I've seen the opinions of other users, I'm going to rewatch Gilliam's films to see how it SHOULD have been done.