Absurd

Rating: Null/10 (29 October 2006)

There are those who say this movie has real 'brio' - whatever that's supposed to really mean. The bottom line is that nothing measures up. And although others say one is not supposed to regard this movie as science fiction, this is exactly what it is - what it is supposed to be. And it does win a science fiction award or two. And as for those who so opine, let's just say it's their relatively low IQ coupled with their total lack of understanding that they're so singularly untalented. There are no extra points for being a nerd when it comes to this one.
Not to say the movie isn't executed in a professional manner. From the direction to the acting everything is well done with Smart being the outstanding one on screen.
But to the story itself. Naturally you're not supposed to understand what's going on initially, and it is this desire to figure out what you're watching that leads you on.
And when you finally understand what oversimplified plot prop the writers are using you find yourself blurting out 'ridiculous' over and over again.
The difficulty with this one is that it has pretensions of being so much at once - and of course that the writers have a predilection for lots of unsavoury things - so for that matter if you're experiencing an unsettled stomach you might want to try an episode of The Simpsons instead (and it will probably work better as science fiction too).
If you're going to get into subtleties like chaos theory then you'd better think through things better. What we imagine, after witnessing this pseudo-piece, is that the writer(s) probably made enough money on the sale of the screenplay to have a blast of an expensive fourteen year birthday party.
And that said, we're now on our way to our local convenience store. They have notebooks there and we'll buy one. And no matter people use computers today to jot things down - as do the campus cretins in the movie - we're going to write an entry about on this evening having seen this movie.
And then we'll concentrate on the page, and concentrate real hard, and then suddenly everything around us will go a big blur and we'll hear lots of pseudo-impressive 'dts' sounds, and in the end we will never have seen this waste of time at all.