If you're going to see this movie, don't pay full price...

Rating: 4/10 (5 November 2003)

...see a matinee. This film wasn't boring but wasn't very interesting either. As someone else said, I kept waiting for something intriguing to happen, to give real meaning to the film and pull the disparate threads together. It didn't.
The film is: too long, disjointed, emotionally flat where it shouldn't be, plot-challenged and overacted. (Sean Penn chewed the scenery in places.) The only plus for me was that I liked the performances given by Kevin Bacon and Laurence Fishburne (actors I haven't especially liked much in the past).
Oscar-worthy? No, not in my opinion. An acceptable matinee or rental? Maybe.