A brilliant film that helped define a genre

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

For a movie that had my attention rapt for the first hour it's amazing at how far it fell off by the end. A man sees an assault at a rooftop from across the street, but before he can call the authorities he is spotted and attempts to hide. The story alone worked well and the genre elements played with in the first part of the movie were very effective, but the movie was determined to completely undermine your assumptions as it progressed. And when that worked in conjunction with the story it was trying tell about a man in deep despair and depression it really worked. But then it slipped the rug out from under you again. And again. And again. And again. And eventually I didn't care anymore. There was a point when a particularly effective character arc was revealed in a bathroom that would have been a perfect ending point that would have left me puzzling over the movie long after I had left the theater. But the movie continued on at blisteringly slow pace for another half hour. Too bad, because the set up was very good.