not a great movie, not especially bad

Rating: 6/10 (24 January 2000)

I've never read the book but I've heard it's weird and meandering and impossible to film. well maybe so, but the screenplay is 1-2-3 easy to get on film with sentimentality running rampant all about the place. The supposed edginess of this film is lost on me. where is it? in the fact that it feautures angelina jolie as an ultimate bad girl or that winnona ryder smokes he cigarettes down to the end before flicking the ashes? I guess I shouldn't complain too much, angelina jolie did play a sex-obcessed maniac (and a damn fine performance of one at that) plus you get to hear "it's all over baby blue" and "psycho killer". i don'tknow.