Seems like a total disaster, but at the end all the pieces of the puzzle fall into their places.

Rating: 9/10 (1 October 2010)

I had never heard of the Belgian director/writer Jaco Van Dormael. Not before this movie. I haven't seen any other movies made by him, but what I had read about him/this movie from the internet, my expectations were pretty high.
/SPOILERS/ It's the year 2092, and Mr. Nobody, a 118-year-old man, has the title 'The Last Mortal', since everybody else has immortality, of course. Mr. Nobody is about to die, and he is being asked questions about his life. His stories are contradictory and it seems that if he was talking about several lives instead of one.
The main theme of the movie seems to be the difficulty of making the right choices in our lives. As Mr. Nobody himself puts it: 'You have to make the right choice. As long as you don't choose, everything remains possible.' /NO MORE SPOILERS/
Right, now for the judgment. Mr. Nobody is an original film, no doubt about that. It is not trying to be too smart-ass. Just reasonably genius. That's a good thing. The movie lags a bit from time to time, but not disturbingly. And the wafting maple leaf... Now, where have I seen that before? Oh yeah! But last time it was disguised as a feather. I'm talking about Forrest Gump, of course.
Anyway, this movie is touching, funny and kind of sad. What more could you ask for? Also the special effects are pretty astonishing. What I would've wanted more was the sympathetic 9-year-old Nemo and the narrating baby Nemo. This is near of being a masterpiece, and another great movie amongst a few other great movies made in the year 2009.