Comment by bshimmin

I watched it again last year, having sort of enjoyed it when it first came out (I was the right sort of age). It's quite an uneven film, to be honest - there's a lot of talent both behind and in front of the camera, but it never really materialises into anything particularly important or, by the end, even all that interesting. The weird sequence that's part Apocalypse Now, part video game, towards the end, has not aged at all well (though from this review in The Guardian it would seem to be quite faithful to the book, which I think I have actually read but remember nothing about!).