boring, weird, and horribly pretentious

Rating: 1/10 (25 November 2000)

i really wanted to like this movie, and in the last 30 minutes it finally started to pick up and interesting things started to happen. however, up to that point, it was incredibly slow, self-consciously artsy, and preposterous. bruce willis was sleepwalking through the entire movie, that kid from gladiator is forced to do a bad haley joel osment impression, robin wright penn is totally wasted, and samuel l. jackson stumbles (literally) through the entire movie in weird disco-leather outfits with a terrible haircut muttering bizarre platitudes. what the hell is going on here? this movie makes almost no sense. the ending intertitles are a COMPLETE INSULT.
in a nutshell: avoid this at all costs.