Poorly executed and weak.

Rating: Null/10 (9 November 2004)

Here we see another post-fight club surprise ending movie that really fails to deliver the goods. Christian Bale is fantastic to the point of scaring me because he lost so much weight, and his acting is as good as ever, but everything surrounding him was less than enthusiastic. The basics of this movie rest in one part Memento, one part Fight Club and one part Jacob's Ladder. Extract the climax of those fine films and insert cheesy 1960s science fiction background music, and we're set to roll. As this movie progressed I was struggling to piece things and people together and by the end of it I had mentally written two alternative solutions that were far better than the one they gave us. If this movie came out in the early to mid 1990s it would have blown me away, but I'm afraid my expectations for surprise endings are higher these days, and this overall didn't deliver the goods. At best this movie should be recut for television and have it aired as a Twilight Zone and/or X-files movie of the week. 2/10 stars.