not so much artistic as simplistic

Rating: Null/10 (22 March 1999)

TTRL represents everything that I dislike about the modern American movie. I can think for myself. I do not need a movie to tell me how to think. TTRL wants to tell everyone exactly how to think. This movie did not allow audiences to analyse the film beyond the parameters of its own oppressive ideology.
The use of voice over was about as ridiculous and unnecessary as ever (remember Bladerunner?). Not that I'm blanketly against the VO. It's just that when the movie itself is so very obvious, so very simplistic, well it makes me wonder why it tries to set itself up, with a couple of sky shots, as 'artistic' at all. this movie would have been a little (and I really only mean a little) more endurable without the incredibly didactic inner monologues.
Mawkish VO, simplistic moralising, self-righteousness overload. This movie was an insult to my intelligence.