My report is bound to be in the minority

Rating: 6/10 (19 July 2002)

I do not know how so many of the film critics got this one wrong! I would also defer some of my review to another review that appears on this IMDB for this film, specifically the review by Shark-43, who got it right. This movie is slick as snot with regard to production, effects, and cinematography (you know, the superficial stuff that is really only important if the movie is ultimately honest). And, yes it does dabble in some of the darker arenas that plague men's souls. But the slickness of Spielberg's mega-production ability and the star power of Cruise are not enough to win the day when, ultimately, this movie delivers one of the most Disneyland-like contrived, naive, phony, and pretentious endings I have ever encountered in a so-called movie of substance and intelligence.