Mr. Nobody not for everybody

Rating: 2/10 (26 July 2010)

I didn't understand or enjoy this movie, and I am both a geek and a SF fan, but the glowing reviews of those who did tell me there's something there which apparently touched others.
What were the writers and director smoking.. sorry, thinking, when they created this material? The non-linear, multiple-pasts doesn't make for a film which can be grasped in the conventional sense of following a coherent storyline through. Reason fails in the unreality of the presentation, it's all so surreal..
An Art-House film mainly screened at film festivals, which by end May 2010 had only grossed 5% of its production cost, it's not hard to understand why Mr. Nobody wasn't promoted as a blockbuster..
Sumptuous visuals, I loved the Mars arrival and departure, but such eye-candy is meaningless in the absence of a correspondingly strong storyline.
Just as Mr. Nobody departs the earth, the point of the film's penchant for running backwards comes into play: Time flows backward and he reverts out of death. Impossible in any sense of our normal experience, but then why not? It makes about as much sense as the rest of the film.