Pretty good movie, with problems

Rating: Null/10 (16 December 2001)

This review has some major spoilers, so if you haven't seen the movie (and I really recommend this movie), you may not want to read this.
I really liked this movie most of the way through. Both the story and the direction were very good. I agree with some of the other comments that the visuals of the movie were very well done, and I also thought the soundtrack was well thought-out, and that both of these things really added to the sensory experience of the file by adding to the viewers feelings of tension and anxiety at the right moments. My only real complaint is the ending. I really liked the premise of LE, but I think the movie should have ended with Tom Cruise in the cell seeing the add on television and figuring the whole thing out. Everything else after that seemed like it was tacked on just in case the viewer didn't catch it to start with and served no real purpose. It was just like the last bit of AI. I really thought that movie should have ended underwater, without the gratuitous happy scene at the end. In both cases, I really had the feeling those scenes were tacked on at the end.