If only he had more time to reshoot those scenes

Rating: Null/10 (2 August 2004)

Most everyone knows at this point that the movie's release was delayed due to a change in the ending and some scenes that needed to be re-shot. It's not the content, but the quality of those scenes that keep a good movie from being a great movie.
You can pretty much guess which scenes they are: They're at the end, and they're especially long-winded, no cuts, lots of bodies in the shots, no suspense, and they spell out several different "reveals." If the explanations for the whole beginning of the plot had been given in a much more subtle, suspenseful way (and true to his style in the rest of the film), it would have been up to the audience to at least partially figure out the "reveals" for themselves.
As it is, the ending is spoon fed in wordy, drawn-out scenes. My guess is that the reason the dialogue and explanation in these scenes is clunky, is that he only had a day with certain actors, and he had to take what he could get.
It's a real shame, because most of the film is good, and I really liked the premise. He just needed to carry his style on through to the end.