Irritatingly stylish with absolutely no substance

Rating: 5/10 (5 January 2008)

This movie is handicapped with so many flaws that my enjoyment was hampered considerably. I hardly know where to begin.
First of all, who keeps hiring Schumacher to direct? The washed-out noir look is considerably overused and the direction is generally inept and/or derivative.
The acting seems worse than it is because the script is awful. Mainly because it takes the central concept too seriously to be appreciated by anybody but conspiracy theorists. Not only that, but large portions of the film are presented in a cheap, pulp fiction style that is obviously laboured. It's the kind of thing that might've been barely passable back in the '40s/'50s when that type of fiction was at it's peak. The main storyline at least keeps you interested but the attempts at seriousness are uninspired, to say the least.
Despite these flaws, I persevered and stuck around until the end but, unsurprisingly, that was a disappointment as well. Watch the movie if you must but don't expect anything remotely close to another "Truman Show" or "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind".