Surprise endings don't excuse complicated, explanatory meanderings. The story is much more shrewd than the film makes it out to be -- things are still falling into place long after the credits have stopped rolling.
Kind of slow, forcing you to give it a chance, since we presume to know the rest. Through all the billowing sequences and finally settling for some lucid crime/detective/drug theme, at the end the surprises pop out and BOOM credits roll, but only after a very cocky, humorous Guy Pearce says with the utmost pretension "Now, where was I?" You can almost hear the filmmakers sneering into your ear "Aren't we just so goddamn clever?"
Yeah, you were clever...but not much else.
5 Fight Club insinuations out of 10.
Kind of slow, forcing you to give it a chance, since we presume to know the rest. Through all the billowing sequences and finally settling for some lucid crime/detective/drug theme, at the end the surprises pop out and BOOM credits roll, but only after a very cocky, humorous Guy Pearce says with the utmost pretension "Now, where was I?" You can almost hear the filmmakers sneering into your ear "Aren't we just so goddamn clever?"
Yeah, you were clever...but not much else.
5 Fight Club insinuations out of 10.