'Cosmopolis' shows us the world in a limo

Eric Packer is having the worst day of his life. But it takes a long time for the viewer — forced to become a voyeur by unrelenting filmmaker David Cronenberg — to realize it.

After all, Eric (Robert Pattinson) spends much of his day being chauffeured around in a stretch limo filled with computer screens, excellent vodka and enough room in which to have comfortable sex — which he does. But the cork-lined interior, designed to shut out the New York noise, and the armored body, built to protect Packer from his many enemies, cannot insulate the man from the reality he hoped — and failed — to create.