Got a Headache?...Take 3.14 Aspirins..And Drill a Hole in Your Temple

Rating: 7/10 (18 July 2012)

There are some films that are an entertaining ride and there are others that take you for a ride (in the gotcha sense). This is one of those that literally spirals out of control. There is so much here and so little. One gets the idea this is from a budding filmmaker that has so many ideas that they cancel each other out or he is incapable of regurgitating.
Filmed in ultra high contrast to give it that "other than the other" feel, is an idea. An obsessed but besieged uber mathematician is an idea. A search for the "God Equation" is an idea. Corporate concealment with complicity of Government technology is an idea. Kabbalistic Mysticism and Bible Codes are ideas. Mathematics is the language of the universe is an idea. Insects infesting our computers is an idea. You get the idea.
So let's add them all up and see the result = Less than zero.
A bona fide film of singular vision and auteur authorship is interesting, if not compelling, and curious, if not commanding. This movie has chutzpah, but lacks coherence. It is a cold, calculating, film bracketed by an unsolvable equation. Push the Reset key.