Posted on 01/04/2006 8:07:21 PM PST by pissant
I saw the movie and actually enjoyed it, though you have to suspend your disbelief in the last reel to do so.
More to the point, the film is a two hour collection of "moments" (snippets of punchline dialogue and brief action) where film's various threads begin on the periphery of the plot and spiral in towards the center. But all you get are points along the thread. Nothing supports or explains the them. Basically, viewers have supply their own rationales for the jumps and breaks in the story and I think that's a lot for a paying audience to accept. And, unfortunatley, it's the usual "America is greedy, pig-headed, ditzy, and wrong", but at least the other players don't come off as really any better.
It's a bummer of a film, but flashy and even captivating, as long as you don;t take it too seriously.
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