It's really good eye candy... This year's academy award for special effects, should go to this movie. The visual presentation was amazing; unfortunately the movie itself was crap. It was two hours of ego extension on both the part of Kevin Bacon and Paul Verhoeven. Mr. Verhoeven revels in the sick deeds of the Kevin Bacon character but shows the deeds like a child ripping the wings of a fly. What he shows is horrible, but he doesn't convey any sense of horror, its almost gleeful. Kevin Bacon starts out as a horrible man and becomes, well, a horrible man. There is not one redeeming factor for this character, well he is indestructible (almost). This movie was boring and pointless directed by a man who is beginning to become very decadent in his directing, but it has no point. Like a child with a new toy he does things that are unnecessary and hurtful but shows no remorse (neither do the characters). All in all this movie was a complete waste of time, two hours of some eye candy (and that ended before the first hour) unfortunately there was another one after that, and it was horrible.