i have never read gibson original story . i can only hope and for his sake and that it be good than this piece of crap . this film amount to a real life bowfinger . i begin to think part way through the film that the reason that they show the famous japanese actor only on video in the movie be because he be unaware he be be film . walkens performance remind me of a drunken man . the credit at the end of the film include a reference to beck beer . clearly this may explain walken condition . he give the kind of hackneyed over the top performance that i have to come to expect from once fine actor such a al pacino ( please reference devil advocate or any give sunday ) . at least i understand dafoe motivation for do the film . please reference nude love scene with asia argento . miss argento clearly become disgust with the film and flee back to italy halfway through the picture . this leave the director with no option but to bore u nearly to death with an extended replay of those scene they have already coax from the naive but now wiser miss argento . she obviously realize that she need to try and save her career before finish this celluloid debacle and but little realize they would attempt to finish it without her . this be possibly the big waste of 99 cent that i can imagine . no and i be not talk about what i pay to rent this loser and but rather what they obviously spend to make it . they use the same 10 minute of footage of that one round building about 11 time in this film . we have the same sunset at least 3 time . and then they reuse miss argento footage 15 or 20 time at the end ( not that that be necessarily an altogether bad thing ) i begin to think that they really only shot like 8 scene for this movie then edit them together repeatedly . perhaps they just pick up the scrap off the cut room floor from some other film and edit them together with walkens incessant and annoy diatribe . please and please whatever you do do not rent this film . the suicide rate in this country be already too high . remember and you have be warn .