But I wont, I'll only wind myself up.

I reached this article through the metacritic rating on IMDB, it was the lowest by far, seriously damaging the average which might discourage some viewers from watching the film. The thought of somebody being discouraged from watching a masterpiece due to one persons il-conceived opinions sickens me.

One thing I will touch up on though which you have listed as one of your many perceived flaws of this almost perfect film, is Nemo's quasi immortality: In Nemo's 'Elise dies in a car crash' life we quite clearly see him, a scientist, working on his telemorization theory through his studies of decay and cell reproduction. Nemo discovers quasi immortality, that is also the reason why he is the last mortal.

Finally I would like to request that you, 'KEVIN JAGERNAUTH' cease from writing any further film reviews and certainly from making any visible on metacritic. You are a damaging and disruptive influence to an art-form that deserves a lot more.

"It's just a random scene after random scene", that's what you would say if you don't get anything that's happening. I'd question the sanity too of a person who lacks so much understanding.

The homeless woman would have made sense if the other scenes involving her weren't cut out… You should check the deleted scenes. But either way, have you never stopped up because you've seen something familiar? And exactly that resulted in you meeting someone, or notice something that you else wouldn't have noticed at all?

Yes, I have the intelligence, tact, and wit to produce a detailed expression of how and why, but I wont.

This movie simply fucking blows on all counts.

Amateur, overwrought, trite, and nonsensical. The only joy I will receive from this movie is my new mission to comment on every single critic's review in order to save others from this shit pit of a movie.

The DVD case probably couldn't even absorb enough moisture to be useful as a coaster.

The dialogue was cliched and just plain stupid in parts. "Gravity on Mars is .38 which is 3 times less than on Earth"

"You're incredible."

I'm sorry, what?

There is too much wrong with this movie to list in one comment. I would like to question the sanity of anyone who claims to enjoy this "masterpiece".

This movie has no substance and is just random scene after random scene.

For example, I don't understand how the homeless woman in the train station had any relevance to the plot other than Nemo and Anna reuniting by chance.

I went into this movie with an open mind as I had just recently watched Requiem for a Dream which also starred Jared Leto and high hopes for him in this movie as well.

But I felt as the movie progressed, I became more agitated and irritated at the lack of plot, direction and the level of artifice.

Just no.

Nemo is boy that can predict the future.Thats why he ask himself in the movie:"why we cannot predict the future?"
Infact he knows the future and knows what will happen from a certain moment and the choises made at that moment.

The moment in the movie is when his parents are divorcing.He has to choose who he will live with.As a boy that knows the future he knows what will happen if he choses between his mother or his father.
With his mother there is possible choise that he will meet Anna and with his father elise and jean.With all this lives he will have,in non of them he ends with his true love(anna).All these stories(the old nemo,anna,elise,jean) are just consequence of the choise he makes at the station.And all of them are failiure.Thats why at the end he is chosing not to go with his mother nor with his father either.He goes in the woods ,takes a leaf and throws it.At the end , that means he choosed a completely new choise and that means a new life , where he is edning up with Anna(the leaf that he threwed at the end wakes him up in the future and finds Anna).How he meets with Ana in this life is not explained,but its surely explained that non of that lifes existed,they were just prediction.

For why I say this is that this masterpiece is for the openminded person who interpret the way they want to believe how the world look like.

If we look at the "cornball angels bit" as Kevin said that he totally forgot:
The religious one could interpret the scene as god creating life in the image of himself, but stripping him of his allknowing knowledge when prepared to live as a human.
The fantasy person would see it as another world sending the seed of life to earth.
or the boring science nerd (referring to myself)intepreting the angel scene as a methaphore for which higher dimensional intelligence would descend life constricted to 4 dimensions, but only a part of his mind, while the rest of his mind was left behind (forgotten) at higher dimensional planes giving him the ability to know every possible outcome of his life, even if his body will have to life through all of them.

These interpretations can be made throughout the movie.

To continue my scientific view of the film, I see it as everything that can happen has happened but he chooses to take us too those timelines which made the biggest emotional impressions in his "lives"; his three potential loved ones. He also lets us into a timeline less likely where he goes to mars. This is the timeline where he learns when the big crunch would occur.
As he managed to live to the end, he was able to see the world go backward in time making the the shattered world fall back into order, inverting entropy.

Im very sorry if I have offended you (Kevin Jagernauth, the reviewer) by writing this, but I think you should see the movie again intepreting it in another way more suitable for you. Less cornball for example.

It's a movie about life , love, choice , consequence, tentative outcomes , possibilities, what might have been. It just shows the viewer how our lives turn out the way they do and what unique circumstances are common to our own life as well as other peoples lives .For example in the movie nemo feared water and couldn't swim yet he almost drowned in the school pool as a kid, drowned in a car in a lake, got shot dead while in his bathtub which all shows a common thread that while some things in an alternative universe or life would change drastically, others may just change slightly but keep some common unique characteristics one could only describe as part of fate.
No matter how you see it, the movie is just too complex to be reduced to an old man's tragic story. This review is a disgrace to it's author.

The reason given for Nemo being able to experience his different lives was that the angel never pressed his lip like all the other unborn children.

Also, I rather enjoyed the science show explanation bits.