144 minute running time so at least 45 minutes too long … Edward Norton vanity project (producer, director, lead actor) … the story wasn’t terrible, but it was just too long and convoluted, and something of a showcase for his actor buddies (“screen-chewing vanity” one critic wrote). If Norton had somehow made a 100-minute movie, it might have been good, but don’t waste your time with this.

Rex hated it: “so messy, confusing and pointless that you don’t know what’s going on half the time, and couldn’t care less.“