too much 'insanity'

Rating: 4/10 (2 August 2006)

This film starts of good. Its got a guy trying to find some order in the stock market, or order in chaos/nature. He's a nervous wreck , obviously he's been trying for a long time and he's kind of sick. The problem is its less of a maths movie and more of a 'oh look how tortured he is' kind of movie. I really liked it when he started to talk about numbers and his quest for pi but thats just the occasional diversion from a black and white gross nightmare of a film which reminds me of all the eighties low budget junk cinema that i cant believe anybody liked. The problem with a film like this is that its more concerned about making you feel i'll than it is with its own plot. It doesn't have a plot, or if it does its so small that the director just lumped in a load of crappy disorientating scenes of him (such as poking a brain with a pencil, constant shots of him taking pills , 'strange' people disappearing when they were there only a moment ago..etc etc, its really bad...honestly...) well...that paragraph was a bit muddled but i just finished watching the film so its not my fault. If you want to sea a really good low budget scientist film watch primer. its a lot cooler than this junk.