Interesting idea, but that was all.

Rating: 6/10 (24 February 2000)

Interesting idea and I believe that the book was very good. However the film seemed to rush through important parts, and then slowly shift through some other parts. Boyle is a very different director, but I think that at parts in went over the top with some of his surreal scenes.
Leonardo DiCaprio did another great acting job however I think that it wasn't his style. The other cast around him for me seemed very woody, and not real, apart from Daffy (played by Robert Carlyle) who brought the film a small bit of life.
The plot was sound, it could have done however with some extra parts so that some of the jumps in the story line were not too sudden. The ending was also poor, however the start was faultless, and well portrayed.
The film overall was okay, it had some interesting scenes, like DiCaprio, as a computer character, which added something most films lack. However this film itself lacked depth and never seemed real, until the last scene. Would I recommend you to see it, well if like Train Spotting', and such like, then yes, other then that probably no.