A pretentious mish-mash

Rating: Null/10 (21 December 2001)

Well, there are some good points to this movie. Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz are lovely ladies. Diaz has a meaty role as the undervalued lover; Cruz plays the perfect woman about whom all men dream. Thus, she is not half as interesting as she thinks she is. This might have been a good romance/psychological thriller if the science fiction elements to the plot had been completely, totally, absolutely omitted. Sorting out reality and Cruise's dreams could have made for a good movie. But the incredibly inept sortie into science fiction makes this movie a joke -- and not a very funny one. The first hour or so of the movie is interesting; the last half hour is ridiculous and boring. The movie might have been worth seeing if a truly interesting and surprising ending had been devised. But it wasn't and this movie was stupid.