Self indulgent and boring

Rating: 3/10 (18 October 2009)

It starts off with some wackos croaking themselves in mildly off-beat ways.
A fairly promising start, a mystery of why the mass suicides, and how to stop them. Unfortunately, things bog down and go nowhere in a hurry. Repeated shots of some meadow, with a breeze blowing. Dull, expository speculations from characters are substituted for action. Stuff that nobody would ever say or think, even if they were high on something. People wander around, more deaths are talked about, and it's all punctuated with weak performances. The actors look like they have no idea what they're supposed to do. People peer blankly and witlessly at bizarre things they see. Actors walk like a stiff, slow robots that need a lube job. Zooey Deschannel, a fine actress in other films, is wasted in a role where she mumbles and stares glassy-eyed (and she's the least awful in the cast). The whole thing is silly, but does not even achieve a "so bad it's good" level.
It's all a conspiracy! Somebody (you simply won't believe how idiotic it is when you find out who) is mad, and they're not gonna take it any more. I couldn't take the boredom any more, either. I shut it off about an hour in.