TOO MUCH artsy-craftsy photography!

Rating: 7/10 (15 November 2004)

I still think it's a good movie but I subsequently discovered at the office water cooler that I missed some key points. This was due to the spiked editing and the overused limited chromatics. Hey movie makers, a little goes a long way! I was impressed with the photography for a while. Then it started to wear me down and I missed stuff.
This stark limited chromatism really makes a movie quite unenjoyable like Stone's "Natural Born Killers". (It's like walking around a cement filled city like New York -- you gotta have some Central Park relief.) Compare to the movie "Spartan" where it's used tastefully, sparingly.