A cheat

Rating: 1/10 (21 December 2001)

*** WARNING: SPOILERS ***
I was loving this movie -- LOVING it -- until the climax. So Kevin Spacey's character's been making it all up as he goes along? Most amusing. And the storyline to which we were wholeheartedly devoting ourselves for the previous 100 minutes (or whatever) turns out to be a neat conman's trick? How delightfully clever. And how completely cynical of the moviemakers. It's their prerogative to take their script in any direction it suits them to, but I couldn't help but feel cheated -- I had actually wanted to know what the outcome of the plot (or what I thought was the plot) would be, not be fobbed off with some kind of superior "you were actually going along with this guy's cornball story? You IDIOT!" attitude. To me, this movie is nothing more than a clever-clever scriptwriting exercise -- all "look what I can do, ma!", and no heart.