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Rating: 8/10 (17 October 2000)

When I voted I clicked an 8. Although it was a mistake, it could have been an 8. In fact, it definitely was between a 7 and an 8. I just believe it failed to meet the standard that should be met to qualify for an 8.
I suspect the audience I saw it with would, by and large, give it an 8 or better. There was a lot of laughing - and some by me. The movie had enjoyable characters and some entertaining circumstances.
However, it had a couple serious flaws. In the first place the beginning and end were good - very easily 8 caliber. The middle 45 minutes or so, however were difficult to watch. The torture that Matt Damon had to go through was actually painful - not funny.
Also, the biases that the other characters had against his character were unreasonable and unbelievable. But, worst of all was how quickly they came around to befriend him near the end of the movie based on very little reason.
I found the movie somewhat disjointed and I'm barely able to recommend it.