If you manage to pay attention closely enough to stick with the complicated and sometimes under-emphasized twists in the plot of this film, it delivers with a bang. The ending was the best part, and it was completely worth getting there for me. The movie uses a stylistic ‘trading’ of various scenes arranged in a square box, with each scene taking up a quarter of the film screen. This effect acts as a transition from one period of time to another, so that it becomes more clear when certain elements of the story are being told out of order. Actually, it’s supposed to do that, but it doesn’t really achieve its goal. It wasn’t until halfway through the film that I realized this was actually what was happening, but hopefully in reading this you are now prepared to see it. In any case, this film gets 4 flames from me because it’s just that good – a solid, original film with Clive Owens and Julia Roberts at the helm and backed by several other powerful names makes this a fun one to watch.

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