Good, but unnessarily confusing

Rating: 7/10 (16 June 2001)

This film seem to go way over the top with the fashionable alternative way of showing of portraying storylines with overlapping and repeated scenes. I feel this idea works beautifully in Pulp Fiction, Reservior Dogs and Usual Suspects to name a few of the modern era.
But this film seem to go to far. I understand that the idea was to make the viewer as confused as the main character (which was incedentially very well acted by Guy Pearce surprinsly), but it was nearly impossible to follow what was happened unless you paid 100% attention and had the right mind, or you wrote down the ideas, or more likely watched it again.

This left me frustrated watching this film (I've only seen it once), although nevertheless it was often quite interesting - particularly the idea of his friends misleading him, or him thinking they were misleading him - making him think irrationally.
I find suprising the dedicated love for this film. I not sure whether because most people found this found so confusing or complicated - they just assumed it fitted together pefectly, as since it had out-witted them they assumed it was intelligentle masterpiece or whether I blatantly missing something here. (Assume most people would suggest the later).
However all in all, I would give this film 7/10 - In summary a good idea, interesting storyline and characters but unnessarily mad jumping around of the storyline and most importantly this film, seems to me, TRIES to be masterpiece, while most masterpieces just happen through a mixture of ideas, orginality, good acting, directing and dialogue and intruiging and believable interacting characters. This film doesn't pull it off. But worth watching nevertheless.