Really entertaining and suspenseful

Rating: 7/10 (25 February 2007)

I'll try no to spoil the ending but I watched this film with a bunch of art school movie aficionado friends of mine and we almost all agreed that the movie was great up until the last scenes. The ending is a bit disappointing but even with that it was a really good ride more enjoyable for the journey than the destination and the acting was superb by all the people involved. The scenes felt tight and coherent and despite the complexity of the plot it was a really neat film that held together very well. The cinematography and settings were all very believable and some scenes in particular were truly dreamy and above par especially the ones that occur inside the novel. Jim Carrey did a great job of keeping his character serious and scary. The psychological torment of his character is very well told and very heart wrenching to the observer. There were a few cliché's and other minor imperfections but the movie seems to take a hip and savvy approach to old screen tricks which makes them seem less like deficiencies and more like witty directing and editing. This is probably the movie I've most enjoyed this year along with Pan's Labyrinth.