A Calvin Klein Ad trying to pass as Intellectualism

Rating: 4/10 (20 June 2002)

Tom Cruise plays the scion of a publishing empire, who supposedly runs 3 magazines when he's not male bonding or bedding supermodels.

His character is so fundamentally narcissistic and unsympathetic that I found it impossible to care about him. Cruise spends much of the movie giving his "Wow, you just blew my mind" reaction as a way of indelicately telling the audience what a "heavy" movie this is.
I think both the script and the director presupposes that the characters are so attractive that their chemistry will be self-evident. It isn't. Whatever this exercise is trying to say about reality and immortality isn't worth the trip inside these shallow lives.