Movie Info
Genre :
ThrillerRelease Date :
October 21, 2005MPAA Rating :
RDirector :
Marc ForsterStarring :
Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling, Janeane Garofalo, Bob Hoskins
REVIEWS RATE:
Critics 
Readers [Rate It]
“..works overtime trying to bend our minds..”
by Robert Denerstein [Denver Rocky Mountain News]
“..works brilliantly on a technical level..”
by James Berardinelli [ReelViews]
“..will linger in your mind...”
by Peter Keough [The Boston Phoenix]
“..so affectingly steeped in loss, resignation and the ghosts of memory..”
by Sean Axmaker [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
“..overbearingly pretentious piffle..”
by Andrea Chase [Killer Movie Reviews]
“..neither thrilling nor psychological..”
by Wesley Morris [Boston Globe]
“..is far more concerned with its looks than psychology, thrills or logic...”
by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press]
“..intriguing and baffling movie..”
by Harper Barnes [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
“..has just enough sleek menace to ensnare you in its puzzles..”
by Gene Seymour [Newsday]
“..Forster works wonders with the actors, keeping a film that is trippier than anything to come out so far this year..”
by Chris Cabin [Filmcritic]
“..Forster isn't devoted to seriously understanding the human experience of his characters..”
by Ed Gonzalez [Slant Magazine]
“..confusing, monotonous, ominous and depressing...”
by James Verniere [Boston Herald]
“..arty and provocative..”
by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone]
“..an overwrought melodrama that takes place in a twilight world between reality and dreams..”
by Kirk Honeycutt [The Hollywood Reporter]
“..a seemingly good movie leading to a devastating letdown...”
by Jack Mathews [New York Daily News]
“..a hyperactive potboiler that nearly goes too far in its efforts to outwit even the most perceptive of moviegoers..”
by Mack Bates [The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel]
Reviewed by Mark Harris [Georgia Straight]
Reviewed by Scott Foundas [L.A. Weekly]
Reader's Reviews
I believe that people only bash the film because they cannot work out the elaborate puzzle and make since of the movie. It is a confusing film, but if the viewer takes the time to think about all of the hints throughout the movie then they can find out the story for themselves. It may take an hour or so, but eventually, the story unfolds and it makes a person very proud to know that they finally figured the film out. I think that more films should contort the brain and provoke oneself to think. That way that person would not have dissappeared into the theater for a couple of hours for nothing.
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