Excellent, but it may be too late to appreciate it now...

Rating: 10/10 (25 August 1999)

....because it's quite apparently a far different experience on the small screen. Having seen it 3 times during the first month of its theatrical release and found it superb, I was not in a huge hurry to rent it, but having just done so, I think I see why so many of the post-video-release comments are negative while those prior are mainly positive. It doesn't make sense -- it's not a movie that's big on visual panoramas or other things for which a big screen usually makes a difference -- but it lost something in the transition. Something big.
I still enjoyed what I saw on my TV screen, but who can say if I would've been as enthusiastic if that had been my first viewing. My advice: play it on as large a TV as you can find. Or sit close?