"Page-turner", entertaining, but nothing more.

Rating: 9/10 (22 August 2007)

I was amused during the movie, and I really enjoyed it (although the ending was kind of too much), but the problem I face is that I'm in the middle between two worlds.
One the one side, we have the critics and all the pretentious people. I see their objections, and I agree with them, but I cannot understand how they can stand to view everything that way. There are some movies where you shouldn't analyze. You should just sit back and eat popcorn. This is one of those movies.
Then comes the other part of the population, the majority, and in this case, the target audience. (I'll use Saw as an example to not spoil anything) In the end of Saw, they've got sort of a "recap", to explain every detail to everybody who didn't fully comprehend what just happened. Now this is needed for some people in the so called "target audience", and is therefore necessary. Too bad that these endings ruin the movie for oh so many people.
The movie is definitely worth seeing, and I enjoyed it. But if you consider yourself even the least pretentious, try to shut off your brain for a while, and you while be entertained.