Good but weird

Rating: 8/10 (17 December 2001)

This film, directed by Cameron Crowe, features Tom Cruise in a challenging role as a cocky rich publisher who gets disfigured in a car crash that kills his sometime lover (Cameron Diaz). After that he slowly starts losing touch with reality in a confusing storyline that eventualy comes together at the end. Cruise is actualy quite good in the film, playing someone who can no longer rely on his looks and charm to get by.. Diaz in a smaller role in also good and Penelope Cruz as the object of Cruise affections for much of the film makes a fairly good impression as well.. though the story keeps shifting and turning, it does eventualy come together in a fairly interesting though out-there way. GRADE: B+