Not Good

Rating: 4/10 (25 September 2005)

Andrew Niccol, while clearly an intelligent person (and occasionally filmmaker), takes his second misstep after "Simeone." While the movie's pace is cleverly orchestrated, it lacks firm decisions tonally - it's an activist movie without a thesis.
Nicolas Cage delivers an enthusiastic, if somewhat uneven performance, but is hampered endlessly by his own narration (which dominates the film, often spoiling the plot in advance). In the end, the film is predictable, stilted, uneven, and indecisive. It's not dramatic when it intends to be, and the humor is too held back by whatever dramatic aspirations Niccol was after.
But hey, nice photography.