America, this is how you do it!!!!!

Rating: Null/10 (9 October 2000)

A film does not need shed loads of sfx and huge name "movie stars" to be entertaining, this film has neither sfx or movie stars, it has brilliant camerawork and ACTORS. This film covers a lot of genres, it is a comedy with great lines and visual gags, it is a drama which gets into all the characters (especially directors cut), it is a thriller which really keeps you on the edge of your seat. While checking out the comments posted by imdb users for this film I found that the only negative comments were by Americans which was unsurprising. A few Americans didn't slag it off, they obviously appreciated what the film was. As is typical of America they wouldn't recognise a decent plot if it jumped up and bit them in the a**e! This is the way comedy should work, americans are too reliant on the quick one line gag comedies of Friends, Frasier and all the other less entertaining programmes of that type they tend to label as "comedy". I will admit I do like Friends and Frasier but I don't what that type of humour in my films. I was lucky when I saw this film because I saw it in the cinema just as it came out and I knew absolutely nothing about it, someone recommended it to me and I watched it. I don't think I've ever seen a film with such a clever plot. If I was to compare it to a film churned out by hollywood the closest would not be anything Tarrantino has to offer but something much cleverer like the Game with Michael Douglas. It's about time that hollywood realised that good film making is about quailty not quantity. I like a good explosion laden, sfx laden flick as much as the next guy but there are times and there are places for that sort of thing. Come on America, wake up if you put stronger plots and stronger acting in your films you wouldn't feel the need to slag off a decent british film that has everything you don't.