Challenges The Audience

Rating: 5/10 (10 October 2012)

The Director's trademark complexity and fanciful film gyrations are sometimes a bit too complicated, and in an era of many movies with shallow, silly, stories it's hard to argue that something is too cerebral. Intelligent, thought provoking, layered messaging is not really in vogue.
But this too can be a deterrent when things get out of hand when the sleight of hand and misdirection is overdone to the point of viewer fatigue. The magical momentum that is at the heart of this film can be lost among the intrigue somewhat, and can leave the audience with a bit of an overwhelming experience. This, depending on your movie watching IQ, can be exhilarating or exhausting.
After all, it is a very good film with style and deep twists and turns and is another in a string of surprises from one of today's best Directors.