When the Pinteresque indoor menace of words meets the Hollywood Blockbuster and the American symptom of attack and defence, the product is a mishmash of psychological thriller and sci-fi. The lack of events throughout the film is nervously over-compensated with a too eventful climax, ending on a psychic working through at the individual level and a subtle reiteration of the American politics of war at the collective. What remains rather unscathed in all this is the performances, especially that of John Goodman who steals the show with his enigmatically comic-psychotic act.
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