Something's not quite right with this film...

Rating: Null/10 (15 September 2000)

This is one of those movies that I'm glad I waited for on DVD. When I first saw the previews for it, I thought it was some kind of action/adventure flick... whoa, buddy... was I wrong! The actual film is confusing from the start, with no obvious direction until you get about half way into it. There's a sense up to that point that you want something -- ANYTHING -- to happen, and when it doesn't you want to give up on it. But, if you sit through it... it just seems to get worse. Leonardo DiCaprio's monotonous narrative quickly gets annoying. And, without giving anything away, Leo's character seems to cause an awful lot of problems for the people around him without ever accepting any responsibility for being a lame, whining, loser! A good premise, but a bad film. Watch it though and try to figure out just where the writers took a detour into someone's hemped-up nightmare!