I've seen worse

Rating: 7/10 (18 February 2000)

I went to see this with my wife, we don't go to movies a lot together - kids and taste and all, but this was St-Valentine's. Let's go see Leonardo !
Well the thing is not so bad, but it is definitely for an MTV audience. Some of the scenes are stunning and amazingly beautiful. The first half is interesting enough, and makes you attentive to the story. But then, it seems to be a mish mash of video-clips. The Game Boy scene is kinda funny in the delirium part of the movie. But the psychology of it all is pretty primitive, and could have been much better.
All the "drama" scenes seem to be picked up somewhere else. I suppose the director was making a wink to Apocalypse Now at some point, if not, he really messed up that part of the story. And the character development in the club-med-in-paradise environment could have been MUCH better.

It could have been a great movie, but I think they pushed hard to put Leonardo too much in front of everything. Good acting, I must admit, but overshadowed by a movie that tries to be too much of everything at the same time : ecology, sociology, humanism, sex, vacation, action, ... Too bad.