I'm the guy that usually loves these movies, but...

Rating: 4/10 (15 December 2001)

This movie got a received of gushing and a lot of hate-comments, but I found myself somewhere in between.
The characters and dialog were very entertaining, but not clever; which is only bad because it tried to be. The movie tried to present itself as a surreal, magical view on...whatever, but goes on too long to be fun when its mysteries are revealed. By the time the story starts explaining itself, the viewer has already imagined many more interesting finales, thus neutering the wonder.
Leave it to my fellow New Yorkers' extensive groaning on the way out of the theater to fund the above research. But back to the positive stuff- good acting, great characters, neat concept; and as an added bonus, bless the editors for not tastelessly tearing out images of the World Trade Towers like every other movie.
Now, if only I got to write the last 40 minutes, it would have been perfect!