Film critics have let me down before. I once watched 'Gosford Park' on the strength of a local critic who gave it 5 stars. I shouldn't have bothered - I wouldn't have given that film 5 stars out of 100. This time 3 local film critics all rated Eternal Spotless whatever as one of the best films in 2004, so I decided to view it. I shouldn't have bothered. This was one of the four worst films I have ever seen (the others being Memento, The Piano, and that precocious pretentious thing about losing a guy in 14 days). I notice the DVD cover had this film in the Comedy genre. I'm still waiting for the first laugh, although come to think of it, maybe the laugh is on the gullible public (including me) - conned by the hype and tripe of the so-called critics into watching mindless boring drivel like this.