A dream within a dream; no this is reality; wait, I'm not dead! What the???

Rating: 1/10 (16 December 2001)

I do have to say, that even after Tom Cruise takes his shirt off five or six times and smiles a dozen more, this movie still is entertaining. It is about a man who is seriously disfigured in an automobile accident. And as his face heals, so does his mind, only not as fast; or maybe not at all. And just about the time you think you've figured it out for the third or fourth time, Director Cameron Crowe throws another log on and everybody is dead. No, they're not. Oh, who knows. There is one too many twists at the end, and that makes this entertaining journey through the mind merely an annoying farce. No, it isn't. Yes, it is. You can't say that. You're dead. Am not. Then what's your daughter's name? Uhh. I wish I'd walked out about five minutes before it ended! By the way, Penelope Cruz does take her shirt off too!