Impressive, but best scenes were on the trailer already.

Rating: Null/10 (16 May 2000)

Although quite impressive of a movie in its acting, cinematography, story line, etc., its studio(s) did the movie a disservice by putting the best scenes of the movie onto the trailers. I don't just mean the ones you see in the theatres or on TV, but the clips on talk shows where the actors/actresses plug the movie.
Sadly, this follows the tradition of Disney's Touchstone Pictures (circa late 1980's early 90's) where the crux of the movie was given away in a five-minute trailer (e.g. The Doctor, 1991). The bad news is that word of mouth precluded many others from seeing the movie once word got out. The good news is that the Disney exec's finally wised up and "trimmed" back on the trailers for future films.
In many ways, it truly is a magnificent picture. I just hope that future movies of this great caliber aren't "diluted" by too much foreknowledge.