What was so great about it?

Rating: 3/10 (25 March 2004)

I thought this movie was intensely boring. It had some very good acting in it from some fine actors (except Cameron Diaz, I really liked her in Being John Malkovich, but she was really flat and unconvincing in this movie), but it had no real story and it dragged on for 3 hours. I thought it was a total waste of time. I can't think of anything very particular to nitpick, since it's been over a year since I saw the movie. I mostly just remember the same feeling I had when I saw another boring movie with Leonardo DeCaprio, Titanic: "When is this stupid movie going to END?" I like to think I have good taste in movies. I generally like most critically acclaimed movies and a lot of indie movies and such. Sometimes though, I see a movie like this that everyone's raving about and I find it to be a spectacular disappointment. It wasn't deep, thoughtful, or emotional in any way. It was just boring dialogue with a few scenes of graphic violence here and there.