Heath Ledger turns in his final performance in this arty mess directed by Terry Gilliam. Not for the first time in Gilliam’s career, his visual sense is impressive but his use of script and actors genuinely disappointing. A man with amnesia (Ledger, and later Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Ferrell stepping in to help finish the picture) joins a bizarre theatrical troop with a travelling stage that includes a mirror portal to another dimension. The whole mess turns out to be a Kevin-Smith-worthy conflict between God (Christopher Plummer) and the Devil (Tom Waits). Though the visuals are usually clever and sometimes downright impressive, unfortunately they’re all there is to it. See if desperate
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