Entertaining and energetic.

Rating: 10/10 (9 December 2001)

I read somewhere that this film features "megawatt movie star power." That may be true, but no one in the film seemed to get a big head--that is, no one outshined anyone else. With this movie pushing the best that Hollywood has to offer, it's refreshing to realize that they're all ordinary people just like you and me that just like to have fun, and that's exactly what they've created--a fun movie.
I have to say that I am not the biggest fan of Steven Soderbergh (I thought that Traffic was depressing), but this was a movie that I liked more and more the longer I sat in the theater.
The plot is surprisingly engaging, full of a number of nifty loops and minute details that you have to watch carefully to follow through. Again the acting was all great; the casting I definitely couldn't complain about. My only gripe is that, because there are so many characters, it's difficult to get to "know" them as much as one would like. Aside from that it's a great film, intended solely to entertain, not to push across some profound meaning.