This is a great movie, even if you don't get it...

Rating: Null/10 (17 December 2001)

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** Excellent acting, and a script that unfolds perfectly like a flower in springtime. Cinematography is beautiful and haunting, certainly one of the best movies this year.
Much like David Lynch's Muholland Drive, people are going to either love this or hate it. I suspect those who are expecting another "Jerry MaGuire" type romance flick are going to be utterly disappointed. It's less confusing than Muhulland Drive, yet still it will make you think and wonder about what you really just saw.
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD
This is the second movie this year I feel I have to post spoilers because too many people seem to miss the plot, or just plain get it wrong and don't like it because of that. Alot of people said "well, I really liked the movie, until the Sci-Fi stuff showed up". Um, well, here's a clue - the "Sci Fi" stuff is all a dream folks, as is his disfigurement, as is EVERYTHING from the point that Tom Cruise falls asleep on Penelope Cruz's couch in her house while watching an "infomercial" on Cryogenics. A very elaborate movie is brilliantly constructed from a very simple premise. Man has party, meets girl, goes to her house, falls asleep watching commercial, has elaborate dream that mixes vanity with guilt, attraction with self doubt, and of course, as what happens with many of us when we fall asleep, mixes it all with the last thing he was thinking about - in this case an infomercial about cryogenics. At the very end, Cruz reawakens on the couch to Cruz's voice - "Relax...wake up!".