what's the story?

Rating: 2/10 (8 August 2004)

What's the story? Really. Characters are flat, boring and you can't really like any of them even if you try. As for the music some of the tracks are obviously attempt to copy some more famous songs of the time and therefore after a while, at least for me, it all become irritating (I guess they couldn't get the right for the original material i.e. from David Bowie which I read somewhere wasn't interested in the film when they asked him in the first place, ... understandable), okay there are quite a few famous tunes but it appears as they are "left over" or something, probably the cheapest they could put their hands on... Going back to the film, I think it was a waste of money. Surprisely it was even nominated for an Academy Award, which is sad to hear that such films get what other much better pictures don't even get close to... :-(