Not really much to get

Rating: Null/10 (8 June 2002)

Contains SPOILER One of the most interesting things about this movie is how utterly simplistic it really is, but how profoundly deep many portray it. It's as if they believe that the "it's all a dream" idea is somehow new in the theatrics world, instead of the dated, cheap, grossly overused vehicle that it really is. (It's one of the cheapest cop-outs available to any screen writer...something just hard to explain? Make it a dream! Brilliant!)
This movie was too long. Much of the dialogue was horrific and pretentious. The highly lauded "Times Square" scene was much ado about nothing. There was a tremendous amount of star power, but apart from Diaz it mostly goes to waste. There were some incredibly powerful ideas in this movie that could have been explored (paranoia being a primary one. Personally I would have appreciated this movie to a much greater degree had it turned into a paranoid schizophrenic prognosis), but the clumsy handling of it ruined any subtly.
Anyways, if you're looking for a clever movie, get yourself Fight Club.