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7/10
A very unusual film ...
23 October 2005
A fascinating film. Aomething of a fascinating quality in the way that it is genuinely unpredictable. It doesn't succumb to any simple stereotypes that come to my mind, is hard to place into any genre, but I'd almost have to suggest American Art-house somehow. A blend of the Hollywood with the experimentally unusual.

It keeps you hanging in there the whole way wondering what the hell is going on, and by the end of it you're still wondering ... not that the ending is ambiguous or mysterious, it's just anything but what you'd have expected and just barely plausible enough that you find it worth thinking about how and when and if it is indeed halfway plausible and just who is actually using whom when, and how and how long this whole scheme of things had been going on - clearly from the very first scene, but before that even ...

Has to be one of the better films I've seen recently! I can't really understand why I'd never heard of it before ...
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1/10
If you can't sleep, here's a drug free solution
6 September 2005
I'm not sure what the appeal of this movie is, but I couldn't find it. It's a really long, barely credible, hardly lucid conversation between three guys on one set.

It doesn't move anywhere, the characters are just totally bizarre, the underlying plot equally so. It's lost on me, definitely a walk out movie.

The one thing that keeps you from walking out is the ever unrealized possibility that it might have some kind of point or meaningful climax, and the fact that, all irritation aside at the banal personalities, they're acted quite reasonably. But you have to brace yourself for endless dialog, wishing on many an occasion that Teach would just shut the %*&* up for a moment.
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1/10
Clear as fog, gritty as sand and worth avoiding proactively ...
21 August 2005
Warning: Spoilers
I haven't seen a film worse than this in a long while. It starts with a sequence of events that are at best implausible (house repossessed, auctioned for 1/4 current market value etc. over a $500 debt that didn't exist) and at worst downright contrived, throws together a pile of obscure allusions to the background of the protagonists, through a very slow moving tedious plot to a climax that, well, is so pathetic you have to ask yourself "What the?".

If you have an issue with suicide, never mind graphic suicide, or lean toward depression yourself, don't go near this film with a bargepole. And even if you don't, I think I've spent more entertaining, thought provoking hours watching grass grow.

Something in me wonders why films like this are ever made.
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