There's not much more to Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's stylish follow-up to AMORES PERROS than what meets the eye. In fact, once the film's fractured, tripartite storyline falls into place, there's considerably less. Whatever the case, Gonzalez Inarritu can spin a good, pulpy yarn, and you're not likely to see three better lead performances in a single movie anytime soon. Told in a complex series of flashbacks, flashforwards and present-day sequences, Inarritu's kaleidoscopic script follows three initially unrelated characters as they hurtle towards a fateful meeting in a Phoenix motel room. Paul Rivers (Sean Penn) is a college professor with a bum ticker, and if he ...
Released:
2003
Rated:
R
Length:
125 mins