not awful but pretty ridiculous

Rating: 6/10 (7 December 2005)

Come on, now. All y'all out there giving this movie 9 or 10 stars need to lay off the glue. This thing is nearly as juvenile as some of the bland TV remakes of Outer Limits episodes. I will toss in a crumb for the pretty boy Ashton K. Considering what he's given to work with, he does the job well enough to stave off any knee-jerk compulsions to blow taters. I am willing to run with unconventional plots and non-linear time renditions. But at least get the details to a semi-credible level if the plot is going to do the Memento thing. The prison sequences were freakin' hilarious. The whole thing wreaked of low budgetness and really bad conceptualization. It gets something of a reprieve for the "having fun with itself" factor. Loved the terrier. It's maybe worth a discount rental price. Other than that, immanently forgettable. If you want to see a paradigm of a suspension-of-belief flick that works, check out "Groundhog Day." That thing is choice. Out.