Trust me - knowing the ending will not help you!SPOILERS

Rating: 10/10 (2 August 2001)

I've seen this film so many times I know the script almost by heart (even before I owned the screenplay). With Gabriel Byrne and Kevin Spacey in it they frankly could have been reading the telephone directory as far as I was concerned but when I saw this movie for the first time I was so utterly blown away by its bravado that I really did not know what had hit me. Trust me - knowing the ending will not help you one jot! I say this knowing that spoilers are a no-no in IMDBland. This is such an utterly ambiguous movie that you will watch it and be convinced of every one of its twists and turns as they are presented. And then you will get to the end, start analysing what you 'think' you have seen and realise that the 'holes' in the final version you think you have gotten the gist of floats away from you like paper tissue in a strong wind. As the film ends two great re-iterations of lines from its script, I can think of no better way to end this review: "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist......And like that, he's gone..."