Why the hostility? It's a good Dream Study ---

Rating: 8/10 (26 January 2011)

I've never understood the hostility toward this movie. For movies rooted in both lucid and unconscious dream therapy, it's FAR better than What Dreams May Come, the Matrix trilogy, Total Recall, Brainstorm, and the like.
I'm particularly fond of how classic record album covers are subtly recreated in various shots throughout the film, some very subtle indeed, like Cruise and Cruz walking arm in arm in a shot straight off a Bob Dylan record.
A second viewing is almost demanded, as the final twists continue to provoke thought long after the movie wraps up. In this, it's akin to flicks like Memento, Donnie Darko, Videodrome, and the Sixth Sense --- it gets under your skin and keeps you tossing around bits and pieces of it in your brain, ironically/appropriately just as you're trying to get to sleep that night -----