A Masterpiece!

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

My advice, read up on the movie before you even watch it. That way you aren't completely confused on the first viewing. There are some flaws, yet it's a movie I go back to time and again when it comes to a star-studded cast, creative story, and philosophical futuristic thinking . It's a satire, but everything about it is coming true today. Watch this movie. Several times.

I barely forced myself to watch it till the end. First time I thought about giving up was after maybe ten minutes or so, and that urge didn't left me throughout the rest of the movie. It mostly looks like bunch of piled up random pretentious crap that leads nowhere. Here and there you can see something interesting, but overall movie is pointless and boring. I endured to the end only because it was written and directed by author of great Donnie Darko, so I hoped it could be one more mindfuk movie that pays off at the end. Yes, it was another mindfuk, and at the end I understood it, but wasting two and a half hours on this nonsense definitely didn't pay off. It's unbelievably stupid and the only thing in it worth seeing are Buffy the Vampire Slayer and several more interesting women.2/10

On July 4, 2005, nuclear explosions devastate Texas. It's the start of WWIII. America turns militaristic. Three years later, California is the key to the presidential race. Republicans are generally winning politics. There is a leftist neo-Marxist movement. There is a new government force USIDent which controls cyberspace and surveillance. Middle east oil is cut off and scientists have developed a new power source Fluid Karma using quantum entanglement. Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) is a key republican who goes missing and returns with amnesia. He has info with Krysta Kapowski (Sarah Michelle Gellar) who is reality porn star Krysta Now. Roland Taverner (Seann William Scott) is a cop or a copy of the cop who is giving Santaros a ride-along.This is an ambitious movie from Richard Kelly who made Donnie Darko. He's allowed to be let loose and that is its major problem. It has so much that it becomes quite a mess. It has way too much. It is unexplainable and illogical. It's a conspiracy nut's wet dream. Somebody needs to hold him back. There are bits and pieces that I really like. I love SWS watching his delayed reflection. I like some of the silly humor. Generally, I don't like the cinematography or directing style or the overly complicated world. It looks like a cheap compromise. I appreciate the ambition but this is not a good movie in most sense. It is a mishmash of weird ideas.

I really don't get why so many people don't like this movie. The only thing I can come up with is that most people in general are pretty dumb. All I ever hear people say is " nothing happens" or it doesn't make sense. I think people just don't get it which is weird cause it's perfectly easy to understand. It's shot well , the story is interesting and despite the fact that it's not a comedy, most of the actors are comedians who all do a pretty good job. Honestly, this is one my favorite films. Way better than Donnie Darko I think. Which is also a decent film but trendy and overrated. This movie is way underrated. I would say that too many people listen to reviews rather than watching a whole film and forming their own opinion.