The Good: I want to like this movie. It's ultra-stylish, has an amazing cast and tries hard to be hip. Sometimes it even succeeds.
The Bad: You will never understand what's going on. Even at the very end (you know, the point in the movie where loose ends meet?) the explanation we're handed for the goings-on just covers the utter basics of what we've just seen, completely destroying the "depth" and "intricacies" I thought the movie was trying to build.
The Ugly: The creeping sensation you get at about the hour mark that all of this "intriguing" bending of reality really has no point, and then being proven absolutely right.
Points Pondered
- Does the director ever bolt upright in bed, drenched in sweat, having come up with yet ANOTHER movie idea that would be a better use of Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling, Bob Hoskins, Janeane Garofolo and B.D. Wong?
- Transitioning from scene to scene through doorways is actually a fairly cool effect.
- I guess it could be said that this movie is trying to depict an experience, not a story, and therefore only has to make as much sense as the fractured mind behind it. If that's the case, why not just leave the audience out of it?
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