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It kept coming up.
This movie, almost unbearable in several places, I enjoyed very much. Wikipedia:
Jonathan Rosenbaum, in his review for the Chicago Reader, wrote, "Like Twister and Independence Day, this movie is a theme-park ride--though it's a much better one, basically a series of youthful thrills, spills, chills, and swerves rather than a story intended to say very much."
There is something very roller-coaster-ish about it, and it kept my adrenaline pumping. But at the same time the movie was so smart, so funny, and so visually sure-footed, that I didn’t think I was riding a roller-coaster that had simply been designed to make money. Indeed, no on would ever think this movie was just to make money—it’s subject matter is so extreme, and the movie deals with it so straightforwardly. It risks—no, there’s no risk involved—it makes its audience uncomfortable. I thought all the acting was good and the lead’s Ewan McGregor’s, was so powerful that I thought he deserved at least nominations for the various acting prizes.
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