Complete Insanity!!

Rating: Null/10 (2 June 2001)

If I would have wanted to visit a lunatic asylum, I would have gone to Mandeville, Louisiana where we have a state asylum for the mentally infirmed!!! I would not have gone to my local theatre, plopped down $7.00, and received a gargantuan headache from noise, chaotic camera work, garish costumes, grotesque characters, and Monty Python-like ambience!!! It was terrible -- I could only spend 20 minutes in the theatre -- I had a terrible headache from the noise, the "music" that was partially interspersed everywhere without rhyme or reason, from the garish photography and costumes, and the whole ball of wax!! Friends, believe me, I had a migraine!! I told the cinema people and they were very kind and gave me a pass for a future film. I went home, took two Excedrin for migraines and slept for about 4 hours!! This is a horrible picture -- I am 59 years old -- I guess too old for this sort of stuff -- must be for the MTV generation. Oh well, I do feel very sorry for them -- I hope their hearts, souls, psyches, tastes, abilities, imaginations, aspirations, intelligence, and humanity are not what this film screams at the viewer!! Chaos, pure chaos. I know poor Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise just had a marriage break-up, I am sorry to hear that -- however, perhaps it happened because Nicole requested that Tom watch this film in its entirety!!! Good and just cause for a divorce!! Enough said!! See you later. Only one good thing is that little fellow Ewan -- I remember him in an ER segment -- he was good in that one. I also tried to see "Eye of the Beholder" with him and walked out also!! I hope this young man does not keep his quirky characters for the rest of his career!! Oh well -- so it goes. by all for now!!