confused mess of a film

Rating: 2/10 (8 July 2002)

well lets be fair. the first hour and a half arent confused and messy. not that im saying that they are original either, but they are ok. but then...but then instead of having the courage to end the film on a bleak downward note george gives us more film...and more film...and more film.
the end is simply horrific although at times it seems that spielberg just didnt know what type of film to give us (should it be all action? or maybe some comedy, hold on, now we need some suspense). the film should (IMHO) have been hard and bleak and fast and instead we are given a dribble ending that was just really so very poor.
phil k dick must shudder at what is done to his works (even the very good blade runner is simply nothing when compared to 'do androids dream of electric sheep?') and in many ways this film said nothing that hadnt already been said by stanley kubrick (nee anthony burgess) in clockwork orange over 30 years ago.
loads of reviews keep saying how this is the new 'dark' spielberg. to me, this was just the same cloying, sentimental, hamfisted spielberg.