A modern day George Melies

Rating: Null/10 (14 June 2001)

I saw this movie expecting to hate it. Even my girlfriend couldn't convince me to see it. To me it looked too artsy-fartsy. Finally, on a visit to my mom, my mom dragged me to it. What I saw blew me away. From start to finish this movie is complete cinematic genius. It is the type of movie that George Melies would have done had he travelled a hundred years into the future, candyflipped on acid and ecstasy, had all the money he wanted to work with, and had thrown in about fifty years worth of modern music and culture. Nicole Kidman was extremely hot in this, and I could relate easily to the story and characters. Some parts of the movie, at least for me, seemed a little too far over the top, but as a whole the movie was excellent. This movie is pure cinema. It would be impossible to recreate this movie in any other medium.