One odd piece of cinema

Rating: Null/10 (6 July 2002)

Cameron Crowe must of wanted to make this kind of film for a long time - you know, the "Fight Club" style film; basically a David Fincher/Lynch film. You can tell he probably had a lot of enthusiasm for this project -- because ideas and images and plot twists just pop up everywhere; it's definetly not without reason though.
I would never expect anything like this to pop up in wide release. But then again "Fight Club" did before it, so it's logical for this to do so. Yeah, yeah, it stars Tom Cruise - and I strongly believe he's a very underrated actor - but if it didn't star him, I doubt this would of gotten as much publicity as it did.
But thank God it stars Tom Cruise. This is an actor of such high quality that the film sometimes in moments depends on him. Good scenes are good scenes because of his sometimes unbelievable acting. He is David, he breathes David, he's a womanizer who basically can't seperate dreams from reality.
This really is an odd piece of film. The atmosphere is tense and sometimes very, very weird. The club sequence, for example. It begins odd (in a good way) and ends on a more down note. Several scenes take to this way.
In the end, this film is really some sort of weird brilliance. I admire Cameron Crowe -- thank God he charged through with this tricky material and came out with something of a surreal masterpiece.