Frustrating experience with a film that doesn't translate well

Rating: 3/10 (11 December 2001)

The lines are horrible. Meant to be witty... they sound trite and played. "She looks like a moth"??? "Holy God"??? "Mother Savior's bones"???
Tom and Penelope over act.
And most of all, any film that requires you to sit through 2 hours of scenes spliced together representing varying but unidentifiable perspectives and time frames... and wait for the last 5 minutes to have a narrator walk you through to explain the unbelievable sci-fi ending... is just poorly done.
Maybe this was a big hit in the art house and in Europe, but it doesn't translate well at all for a commercial audience in the U.S.