Too Slow

Rating: 4/10 (2 November 2002)

Ebert describes this as requiring heavy lifting. Seems to me that at some point the viewer decides if the reward is worth the lifting and personally by the 90 minute mark I had decided that no "explanation" in the conclusion was going to balance out the tedium of the action. Did Cruise deserve to be wealthy? Probably no. Was he responsible? Not much. Did he "use" Diaz? Yes. Was she using him? Seems like it. Did his getting into the car with Diaz after his night with Cruz justify the results? By what yardstick? Do we care about Cruise or Diaz as people? Cruz was "cute" but Cruise was unconvincing. Weak science fiction at the conclusion. And if the first voice saying "open your eyes" is Cruz's voice, then there is no moment of objective reality in the entire movie-it is all dream.