Mixed or average reviews - based on 33 Critics  Critic score
distribution:   1. Positive: 12 out of 33   2. Negative: 9 out
of 33   1. A mostly fascinating, often frustrating, boldly
uncommercial Hollywood version of a boldly uncommercial art
film. It's very atypical of the previous work of both director
and star, and it's as personal a film, I suspect, as Cruise will
ever make.   2. Highly entertaining, erotic science-fiction
thriller that takes Mr. Crowe into Steven Spielberg territory.
3. 78     It's a film that you can take home and chew over
later, both abrasive in its loudness and reflective in its
fleeting, feminine moments of silence. Well done.   4. 75
This is the kind of movie you don't want to analyze until you've
seen it two times. Now that I've seen it twice, I think I
understand it, or maybe not. Certainly it's entertaining as it
rolls along.   5. 75     An involving, sweetly touching love
story, buoyed by Crowe's natural, poetic dialogue and his knack
for writing characters (especially wo