Excruciatingly bad

Rating: 2/10 (22 January 2014)

If anyone doubt's P.T. Barnum's assertion that no one ever lost a dollar underestimating the taste of the American public, the ratings of this "film" should confirm it once and for all. Ploddingly paced and more than a little creepy, this is an ordinary little sci-fi plot that would have been better treated as a 20-30-minute radio play. As the scenes drag endlessly and inconsequentially on in this brutally non-visual story you can actually feel the pain Spike Jonze went through trying to come up with something, ANYTHING to put on the screen. Of course, as the scriptwriter of this mess, he had only himself to blame.