Mar 20, 2001 06:56 PM
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Jennifer Lopez plays a child psychologist who enters people's mind through the use of a technology which allows mind linkage. When a serial killer is apprehended in a comatose state with his final victim still alive, but trapped within a glass cell which will fill with water within 40 hours, the FBI enlist her help to get inside his mind and find out where she is being held.
The opening sequence featuring a woman dressed in a white flowing dress walking across the tops of sand dunes in the middle of a huge desert gives a taste of the visual delights to come. What follows from this is a twisted melange of nightmarish imagery from within the mind of tortured mind of a psychopathic schizophrenic. Directed by Tarsem who is mostly associated with music videos, this movie is full of bizarre imagery which is beautifully shot and truly freaky. Even if you hate the movie you will appreciate how visually impressive it is.
The horror aspect may be a little too stomach-churning for some and it definitely deserves its R-rating - I won't give away any of the scenes but be warned.
Lopez puts in an adequate performance and looks gorgeous throughout in a movie which has the feeling of being a little like a star vehicle as much as a movie in its own right. The rest of the cast are OK as well in a movie consisting of some very good and most importantly NEW ideas but which is carried mainly by its visuals. I expect there to be plenty of criticism about this, with comments about how it looks more like an extended music video and has little substance, but I feel that would be unfair - and anyway, who cares!
This movie is highly entertaining and intriguing, not only through it being an interesting new twist on the tired serial-killer genre, but also because of the sheer weirdness of the visuals. I found myself as much intrigued by what exactly Lopez would encounter next in this diseased mind as much as whether they would rescue the kidnap victim in time.
Thoroughly enjoyable but definitely not for the faint-hearted
