Wasted time

Rating: 3/10 (9 April 2014)

After a lot of hype I decided it was time to give this movie a whirl & went in with reasonably high expectations, but was sadly disappointed.
I really am not sure why it's getting such good reviews. Yes it's basic premise has an element of interest to it and it's not bad for such a low budget. But I've seen far far better low budget movies than this and they don't have any of that pretentious "arent we so gosh darned clever" air of this one. And quite frankly, no it's not that clever.
The characters were one dimensional and exceptionally annoying, the acting was terrible not helped by an abysmal script. Honestly that's gotta be some of the WORST acting I've seen especially from the cop & the doctor. Good lord. I partly blame the director who shoulda known better and either not directed them to act that way or prevented them from doing it. They were woeful. The others were hardly brilliant either but were at least tolerable.
The basic premise worked for a while but then just got tedious and repetitious and ran out of steam to the point where I started skipping ahead & getting impatient for it to get to "the point" or at least some sort of new direction, development in story or character or resolution. Anything! The mathematical principles and so-called philosophy were laughable and the ending was absolutely ridiculous. Why would that guy do that? There was no reason to kill at that point. And yeah, you could argue he went nuts but that's really a cop out. How did he find that spot anyway? He had no mathematical skills & no genius autistic kid to help him. Plus he was nuts. How could he possibly have figured out something so complex without all the assistance and not been killed along the way? Ludicrous. Nothing made sense by the end of it and frankly I didn't care by then about any of them so it made no difference to me other than being a cheap way to treat the viewer after such a long tedious movie. The "lone survivor" cliché was also tragically predictable.
If you're easily impressed by gobbledegook masquerading as clever philosophy then you might enjoy this. But if you're looking for tension, atmosphere, thrills, suspense, horror, sophisticated plot, good character development, great cinematography or excellent direction go elsewhere pilgrim.
Had potential - didn't go anywhere with it.