7 on a scale of 10

Rating: 7/10 (5 September 1999)

As always, Michael Douglas is fantastic. If not for him, this preposterous movie would never have been made.
I watched with the interest and intensity of an 8 on a scale of 10, but when it was over, I had to vote. It's kind of like eating something good (8), but the after taste is a 5. I mean you have to forget what it tasted like initially, because you are in the present - and sometimes the present tastes pretty bad. Thus a 7 on a scale of 10.
My problem was that after it was all over and the mystery all solved (except for the blood on the back of Penn's jacket - what's that all about????) I had to just shake my head over and over and over and the only word that came to mind was preposterous, preposterous, preposterous.
But, if you don't care or if you don't worry about that sort of thing or if you can hold your nose 5 seconds after the movie is over for at least as long as the after taste lingers, then you might really like this movie.
As for me, I enjoyed the 2 hours, but I will not remember it fondly.