Different than the book, same problems as the book

Rating: 7/10 (15 February 2000)

Read the book over the summer, really liked it in a Fight Club kind of way. Post gen-X stereotype stories that actually speak to me and my frustrations. But I thought the book got muddled near the end, especially in the return of Daffy to the proceedings. That was even more extreme in the movie. As soon as Richard goes crazy, Boyle went for a schizophrenic non-linear extended montage, all of which took away from the rest of the film. If insanity was presented as matter of factly as paradise was, with composed scenes, instead of images, it would have been more powerful as well as more satisfying. Dicaprio, as usual, was top notch.