I was expecting a REAL twist with a plot against David and a switcheroo of sorts with the women in his life. just as it gets you into that, it says "gotcha", and goes into a laughable (people in my theater did groan and laugh) sci-fi bailout. Just when the film gets you compelled with this apparent plot development (not an easy task with drawn-out boring scenes, typically crappy Cruise acting, and a lead character that probably 1% of America can identify with). Guy gets into weird situation, you think he's killed someone, you're teased with a mystery (who did he kill, and did he), teased with conspiracy (did they frame him), and then it ALL GETS THROWN OUT THE WINDOW for the same ending my pals and I used in the FOURTH GRADE!! The advertisements for this film tease you into thinking it will be an action-drama with a murder mystery. Suppose we had been able to, back then, replace "and then I woke up" with "and then I realized that I was cryogenically frozen and was experiencing a programmed brain-input deally". make a crazy scenario, make the audience wonder how the hero/heroine will escape, and then "wake up". ![]() I'm sure you're familiar with this device. ![]() ![]() ***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** When I was in grammar school, my friends and I went through a phase where all of our journal entries, the stories we wrote for class, would end in "and it was all a dream", or "and then I woke up".
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