I rather liked it. Its spooky quality is maintained by you never knowing exactly what's going on. Is the patient really deluded or are his 'delusions' reality? I think they did a very good job of keeping the audience guessing and the performances were very believable. If I understand correctly the reason they're trying to get him to think it's 1999 is that he has to sign a consent form for his immune system to be used. They're trying to trick him into signing. It's suggested that there must be some sort of ethical or legal reason that they need a voluntary signature even if they have to deceive him. The ending is puzzling if you're looking for a coherent logic behind events. The ending suggests that nothing in the film is real...they're playing with our minds. This quality of never being sure of reality is one of the things I liked about the film. The 2 main actors are creating a reality between themselves--but the rest of the world is a bit tenuous. Of course there's a lot of people who won't like that at all.
