*** - Writer/director Richard “Donnie Darko” Kelly’s 3rd feature film is based on a short story that I am pretty sure was either made into a “Twilight Zone” episode some time ago, or is rather similar in plot to one, anyway. I’ve always disliked the way the “Twilight Zone” stories were overly truncated to fit into their rather short format, but this two-hour film goes to the opposite end of the spectrum by stretching out a somewhat tenuous premise to include lengthy silences and several irrelevant scenes. The basic idea here is pretty neat, and the movie has some pretty good parts, but I can’t really endorse going out of one’s way to see it… especially since the now hideously ugly Cameron Diaz – who I didn’t even really have any interest in watching ten years ago when she was marginally attractive and had semen in her hair – is heavily featured in it. She looks like her face has been run over by a truck. Cyclops from the “X-Men” films is also in this, for what it’s worth.
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