Be forewarned

Rating: 1/10 (2 January 2005)

First, a confession: I didn't watch the whole movie. The first 15 minutes of this film are so frenzied, and do so little to propel anything resembling a story, that I couldn't stand the thought of sitting through the whole thing. I am a fan of both Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman, and I found their talents to be completely wasted in this brightly-colored mess. Maybe I'm too old to get it; this appears to have been edited for the MTV generation, or any viewer with a severely limited attention span. I need to add lines in order to have my review accepted, so I will say that the set design was spectacular, although with too many computer-generated backgrounds for me. Maybe if this comes on Showtime sometime when I'm suffering insomnia, I'll give it another try...but I doubt it.