McIntellectualism

Rating: 2/10 (13 July 2013)

The overall basis of the movie is grandiose. It follows a few souls through time and reincarnation. Trying to sew their lives and events into meaning and continuity. And more importantly, trying to answer the big questions of life. At best, the movie shakes through a space/time non-continuity. Never allowing any of the characters to properly settle to gain depth or be truly personified. The directors failed at reincarnating a book unto the big screen. Mozart was able to create monumental feats with nothing more than a few ideas, ink and paper. The Watchowskis nor Tykwer are no Mozart. They sat and composed a tone def production of experimental sounds.
Many people boast about the intellectual feats this movie achieves. But I say this movie would be the equivalent of Starbucks and McDonalds collaborating to produce a film. The end result equal to their product, it's fast, tastes OK superficially but it's neither gourmet nor will it ever properly nourish your mind. They did not super-size any intellectuals feats here. A cliché term would be pseudo-intellectualism but I struggle with that. I think such a phrase is too good for this drab they they tried to feed on a silver platter.
Save yourself the time. Sit at your couch and surf all the channels for three hours, you'll gain just as much and feel equally jumbled as if sat through this. I really can't see the difference between the two.