lost it in the end

Rating: 6/10 (19 November 2002)

Good movie through 3/4, but the ending of the movie demostrates that spielburg should leave suspense to others. He's too much of a storyteller. the movie culminates and you realize who the real villan is..great, end it then...but then to fall back on the old phone conversation/confrontation...for 15 minutes!! It just reiterates everything a viewer of any sophistication already figured out, and leaves nothing to debate or chew on afterward, not to mention being unforgivebly cliche and unoriginal. (see "usual suspects" for how to ending twist right) i'm guessing that it was an attempt to make the movie understandable to all the mindless viewers who will go watch a cruise or spielburg film about anything..too bad the rest of us have to suffer.