Not total crap, but pretty close

Rating: Null/10 (17 January 2000)

Read the book. Why anyone would make a glossy Hollywood film out of this book is beyond me. Horrible ending, adequate performances, but Angelina Jolie, while luminous, is not really all that good here. Glamour queen all the way. Winona Ryder deserves a better script and a more interesting movie. It just didn't seem like this film had the guts to really be as brutal as the book demanded.