I started watching it and fell asleep exactly 13 minutes into it. Then woke up seven minutes later and rewind it, at this point I remembered what DF told me, "Its slow, but has some great last five minutes."
I gotta tell you this, Im not ruining the movie, but if you really like the whole suspense thing, stop reading this NOW and go rent the fucking thing.
With the tag line in my DVD was: "In a world where nothing is what it seems you've got to look beyond..." and that kinda gives it away.
The whole movie is really well made and I didn't think it was slow at any point. It was actually really intriguing and nicely made. But it is just too obvious. You might say that I'm just being smart and going like "O, no, iI got it from the beginning", but from half the movie forward, it was so obvious. Why? Money. That's the simple answer. Lets see, who acts in it, El Che Guebara (Benicio Del Toro) who could fit perfectly Sergeant Jew in Inglorious Bastards, Alex Baldwin's Brother, Kevin Pollak, and some other guys, and then we have Gabriel Byrne, who is a really great actor, but I think the character doesn't suit him. And last but not least, Kevin Spacey.
Now, why would you pay Spacy, who is the most expensive one here to make the whole movie if the movie is not about him? What really gives it away is how the other bad guys change and he is always the same. It might be the Hungarian Mobsters or the Argentine smugglers, but the whole think points at the cripple (Spacey). For example, as you might know, Marlon Brando appeared only like a minute in Apocalypse Now but still was the highest paid actor. Why? Because the movie was about him. About finding him. Here, the movie is abou his view, and each time it is a bit different revealing the whole story.
I think it is a really well made film, a bit overrated in IMDB with 8.7 and position #21 in the top 250. But still very recommendable.
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