Is it a dream, is it reality? Who cares, it sucks.

Rating: Null/10 (4 June 2002)

Absolutely terrible. 3/4 crappy 90s noir, 1/4 crappy 90s Sci Fi, 100% pretentious nonsense. The actor's star power makes it seem like it should be a good movie, but unless you're one of the severely deluded people who've reviewed this film on imdb.com, you're going to hate this mess.
Every single line gets repeated at some point in the movie, utterly ruining its original effect. If I hear "red dress, strappy shoes" one more time, I'm gonna barf. Ditto the "four times" speech, cute at first, increasingly annoying later. Tom Cruise supposedly goes through some great transformation, but the people in the movie are the only ones who can see it. For the rest of us, he's a shallow dickweed, then a shallow dickweed with a mangled face, then a shallow dickweed with a normal face, but living in some stupid "dream" world made up of Crowe's outdated pop references.
The whole premise is based on the old, cliched, and utterly boring "is it real, or is it a dream?" crapola which has fueled a thousand bad art movies. By the end, I didn't care which it was because such pseudo-everything rambling isn't a substitute for a plot. If you like two hour music videos strung together with poorly-digested college 101 philosophy, this flick's for you. My advice? Buy the soundtrack, smoke a fatty, and imagine a better movie than this garbled pile of crap.
RstJ Albany, Oregon.