Pseudo-scientific Pabulum

Rating: 2/10 (8 September 2018)

There is a concept in food where something if something that is supposed to be sweet is made too sweet, it becomes "cloyingly sweet" and is ruined. That is how I would describe "Mr. Nobody" - a cloyingly sweet film that abandons any notions of realism, science, or logic in favour of an outpouring of style and sweetness.
It's one of those films that seems high-minded and intellectual, but there is really nothing there behind it, at least nothing that I found. I found it a bit nauseating to watch the overly sappy romances, with overly sappy love music overlaid, and overly stylistic camera angles applied... as I said, "cloying." The jump-cut style of the editing is also quite annoying and the jumping around in time grows tiresome extremely quickly. The logic holes in the plot quickly become apparent but the film slaps on more sap to cover them up.
Part of the problem is that I came to this film as a recommended "science-fiction," but I can assure the reader that there is nothing scientific in the slightest about it. I see the IMDB tag does read "Fantasy Romance" and that is how I would accurately describe the film.