This was a flop?

I thought this movie was brillant. I will do some more research but it was probably the distribution of the movie and limited promotion. When I orginally saw this movie it was playing at an independent movie theatere that no one went to. With the hype of Inception and series like Ghost Whisper I bet it would be a smash if set in modern war times. I think people thought it was a war movie when people were questioning the war we were in 2005 (are we still in that war?).

So true. This was a brilliant film and so disappointing that it didn't do better than it did.

I live in hopes it will become and underground classic.

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The rating here is on the mark, but at the time the film got really bad reviews in the US press, including Ebert. I guess the critics got tired of amnesia films in general and couldn't appreciate Maybury's aesthetic, which is stuck/inspired by earlier periods in cinema (such as the 1970s). For me that's not a bad thing but for some it may seem passé.

It's too complicated for wide spread appeal.

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The Title. Just bad.

Sad really, this is such an underrated movie, I would put it on the same level as Jacob's Ladder and The Machinist.

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