too explicit

Rating: 5/10 (30 December 2006)

i found this movie really intriguing right up to the moment where cruise starts running around screaming for 'tech support'..
until then you had this extremely interesting plot with tremendous depth, little in the way of clarity but with an underlying notion that maybe this guy had opted for cryonic freezing at some point (we see/hear adverts for the procedure from time to time)
i could have happily watched the movie until the end without having the heart of the storyline pushed in my face, left instead to figure it out for myself
but no, we are effectively told the plot in the style of a scooby doo episode in usual Hollywood dumbed down fashion. and we're left afterward only to figure out, if we can be bothered, which parts of the film are 'real' and which parts aren't
the film is certainly very weird, and stays with you. but it could have been a great deal better if the makers hadn't been tempted to go for exposure and cheap laughs with the 'tech support' nonsense. for me, that section turned it into a joke movie