Incredibly innovative technique, catastrophic ending

Rating: 3/10 (15 June 2001)

Within the first 10 minutes, this film had me hooked. I immediately understood the reason for the choppy 1-step forward, 2-steps back modus operandi of this film. They are successfully recreating Lenny's condition (Guy Pearce) and immersing the audience in it.
However, this proves too good to be true for the director, who promptly allowed the ending to crumble, and left the very ending wide open, which is nice in a normal film like Castaway, where you want to leave the viewer with some nice possible outcomes after the main conflict of the film is already resolved, but KILLS the movie when you leave the conflict of the movie not only unresolved but unexposed!