A film that might talk the talk, but stumbles when it tries to walk.

Rating: 6/10 (8 December 1999)

Cowering under the shadow of Kubrick, this film is terrified of its own implications, and so emasculates them by a ludicrous twist; an act of creative vandalism as serious as the framing device in THE CABINET OF CALIGARI. Investigation of social malaise reduced to whinging male angst - like we need more of THAT. Brave initial incoherence and fragmentation jettisoned for plot and convention. Fear of women the real problem - anti-capitalism a childish, major-studio-sponsored joke. Brilliantly funny, though - works best as harmless black comedy.