Subtle and Inventive

Rating: Null/10 (3 November 1999)

The beauty of this movie, and the key to the impact it has had lies in it's ambiguities. The fact is that, like all great movies, "less is more" allowing the viewer's own imagination to build on what they think happened. This provides everyone with their own take on the story and creates a debate.
Whether you liked it or not (and I thought it was great), the BWP is the most important movie of the year. Its crossover success has not only opened a different type of movie making to the mainstream audience, it has also shown Hollywood that the mass audience has the intelligence that they are too infrequently given credit for.