VividSimon Simply Perfect

Izzy Adkins The movie is surprisingly subdued in its pacing, its characterizations, and its go-for-broke sensibilities.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

TxMike Ryan Phillippe is Simon Cable, waking up in a hospital room, unclear how or why he is there. Stephen Rea (of 'Guinivere' with Polley) is Doctor Newman, who very calmly explains he had been in an accident and asks Simon questions to see if his mind is working OK. Simon knows who he is, but thinks it is 2000 when in fact it is 2002. Plus he has been married for two years and has no recollection of that. From that fairly straight-forward beginning comes a jumble of things I found impossible to keep up with. Sometimes we see Simon in the hospital in 2000, and at other times, dressed differently we see him in 2002. At times he will be talking to Sarah Polley as Clair, but when she exits just seems to disappear. At other times he is talking to Piper Perabo as Anna, and she too will disappear.Then there are the scenes with his brother, Robert Sean Leonard as Peter Cable, who was supposed to have died two years earlier. They are in the old, large house they had jointly inherited when their parents died and there was some issue with the disposition of the property.While the whole concept for this movie seems interesting, overall I didn't enjoy it because it was just too difficult to follow, for the situations revealed at the end.SPOILERS: As it turned out, Simon was in fact no longer alive, but spiritually had not let go of the complications in his life. He apparently caused his brother's death in an argument in the house, and Peter fell to his death. Simon apparently was having an affair with Peter's wife.

oparthenon I'm surprised that some user comments found "The I Inside" even marginally watchable; there may be some star attraction in Sarah Polley or Ryan Philippe, but they are both ill used, and it is difficult for me, at least, to imagine genuine tears falling from Philippe's eyes as he mourns his existential condition with lines like, "This can't be --expletive deleted-- true!" and a moment later (as we switch to existential condition #2) "This can't be --another expletive-- happening!" (A reflective person, one gathers, this character apparently isn't.) Indeed, the action of the film (such as there is) is so preposterous, one can't imagine it happening anyway; but then this film knows not whether it is sci-fi or thriller, mystery or psychological drama -- no wonder the audience is reduced to focusing on its stars rather than on what they say or do as characters. Sorry -- a 2 star rating to a film that features glamorous actors in unglamorous, unflattering roles, and is absurd in the event to boot.

soberauer Just like the TV series "Lost", it seems all exciting while you watch and wait anxiously for the ending, which is supposed to explain everything, but when it ends, nothing is explained.The whole point to movies like this is the ending which is usually a really fascinating twist, explaining why things happened the way that they did, e.g. "The Others", "6th Sense". This one had absolutely no conclusion and left me feeling cheated and like I had wasted the last 2 hours of my life.At least it's fun to sit here and write how sh1t this move was and hope someone reads it :) By the way, I can't stand the TV series "Lost" either, and I did understand every single word in the Matrix, so I'm not dumb.

taclark I hated this movie, but I dislike a lot of movies that others seem to love--like A Beautiful Mind or the Usual Suspects. So if you loved those shows, read no further. I'm only posting this for the benefit of people with similar tastes, so they can avoid this one. At least A Beautiful Mind and the Usual Suspects had some entertainment value. This show has none. Only weirdness, and in a very annoying way.For me, a film has a duty to the viewer to be fair--to not resort to the cheapness of portraying a dream, delusion, or fantasy as reality. It's fine if the character doesn't know what's going on. It's even fine if the audience doesn't for a while, but I find it incredibly annoying to invest a couple of hours into a story only to find out in the end that it was all just a dream.This movie is very cheap in that way. You might like it if you're fifteen years old, don't care if a story makes any sense, and just like weirdness, but I hated. I sensed early on that this was one of those annoying movies that offered no clarity, so I fast forwarded and watched the ending. Well, the ending made no sense and so at that point I gave up on the show and came to IMDb. After reading the posts here and the tremendous amount of confusion this movie caused, I have no interest in watching it all the way through. This is one movie that should have never been made.