Suspension of disbelief is not an excuse for a poorly written script

Rating: 4/10 (10 August 2005)

A cool looking/sounding movie that tries to tell the story of a sick, weird man who is obsessed with his own thoughts and his failure to grok the world outside.
Max Cohen, the main character, is a mathematical genius desperately trying to find an overlap between his own view of the world and the world itself. In fact Max thinks that the world can be described by means of one single mathematical model.
The inability to find such a model and thus reconcile himself with the world, drives Max towards madness, and eventually he chooses to call himself out of this search for the holy grail.
A simplistic script (look at the goofs page!) for a trite conclusion; there's a whole lot of icing, but the pie under it is so small that you are left with an appetite for more.