As Wilhelm and Jacob, respectively, Matt Damon and Heath Ledger
deliver bland performances as they fall victim to this cinematic quagmire.
, as Kubrick, working from his own screenplay,
delivers a meandering midsection that's riddled with padded - out and pointedly needless sequences - with the decidedly (and continuously) far - from - engrossing atmosphere exacerbated by O'Neal's often stunningly weak
performance (ie the actor
delivers a
bland and thoroughly forgettable turn entirely devoid of charisma or presence).