Fateful Findings

Plot synopsis:
The film opens with author and vigilante-hacker Dylan (Neil Breen) reminiscing about his childhood friend Leah (Jennifer Autry), who he has been in love with since he was eight. While walking in the woods Dylan and Leah had found a secret stash which hid a magical black stone. In the present day, its mystical powers are revealed to Dylan after he is hit by a car and survives the accident through a mysterious and miraculous speedy recovery. Dylan reveals to his wife, Emily (Klara Landrat), that he has not been writing a new novel but instead has been using his hacking skills to expose "the most secret government and corporate secrets". His commitment to this mission is tested by his wife's downward spiral into alcohol and drugs ending in an overdose, the murder of his best friend framed as a suicide, and continual sexual seduction by his best friend's underage step-daughter.
Plagued by haunting dreams of a mystical book of secrets, Dylan begins seeing an additional psychotherapist and is encouraged by the discovery of his lost childhood girlfriend (Brianna Borden) (revealed to be his nurse during his recovery from the accident). Despite his efforts, he is continually harassed by unseen spirits. His life as an author slowly deteriorates and he confides in his new lover, Leah, that his work may be discovered. This culminates when Leah is kidnapped by an unknown assailant. Dylan manages to track the attacker and uses teleportation powers to rescue Leah from her kidnapper. Before releasing his findings to the world Dylan chooses to see his psychotherapist one last time only to find that she has been a ghost the entire time and he must now question the council of spirits that guard the mysterious book. In the end, he releases "the most secret government and corporate secrets" to the world. During the speech an assassin attempts to thwart Dylan but is killed by Dylan's powers. Exposed, government officials and executives throughout the world take their own lives, in public exhibitions to applauding crowds. Dylan lets the world know that they have the power to fight the tyranny of corruption and work outside of government and corporate systems just as he has done.
Although not in the final cut of the film, its teaser implies that the government, men in black, or aliens may have been monitoring Dylan throughout his entire life, and possibly may have been the original source that granted him his powers.

Tags: paranormal, murder

Review:
Fateful Findings is a new film directed by the up-and-coming and relatively unknown Neil Breen.
It is a political thriller of sorts with paranormal and cosmic undertones including, but not limited to mushrooms that turn into magical crystals, spiritual beings and a car accident that turns someone who already had special abilities into some sort of super genius who now has incredible hacking abilities, is a scientist and well-regarded novelist.This movie is being touted as a new The Room, a movie so bad that its badness transcends everything that we know about bad movies and becomes sort of brilliant.
Take, for instance, a series of scenes in which the main character, also played by Neil Breen, appears to transport himself into a magical crystal, and the set inside of the crystal is clearly just a basement lined with trash bags to give the illusion of a shiny, black stone.
A certain amount of schadenfreude is involved when you get so much pleasure out of these movies, because you're always aware that the director and his cast and crew set out to make something legitimately great and entertaining, but failed miserably along the way.
We laugh at the movie screen not because of some wonderfully witty banter, but because each reaction shot seems to be filmed on a different day with a different lighting set-up and no consideration for the audio matching the rest of the scene.If you, too, are a lover of bad movies and cinematic failures, Fateful Findings will be perfect for you.
The opening shot of the movie is pretty damn masterful and builds tension and you're thinking that you might be watching a movie from a skilled craftsman, but immediately after that, the movie looks like an after school special from the 1980's, and then the cinematography only gets worse from there.
It's like the quality declines and then does a reverse plateau somewhere near the bottom and flatlines from there until the movie is over.Fateful Findings is good, very good, but not great.
And no one pisses on hospitality."No more books!" is going to be the oft-quoted line from this movie, when our main character chucks a book he wrote at one of his five laptops that he utilizes for hacking "the most secret government and corporate secrets" despite never being on.
He mostly just sits at a black screen and clacks away and nods, letting us know his efforts are successful.Through a series of events including a pretty realistic looking car accident, our main character meets up with his childhood love, now working in the hospital he visits during his recovery.
It could be argued that Neil Breen is employing some Lynchian, dreamlike logic to his movies and has created a low-budget surrealist masterpiece— the black gem of this movie is like the blue box from Mulholland Drive.
If that's the way you want to read into it, awesome.If you have an interest in cult movies, watch Fateful Findings as soon as you can at your local grindhouse or when it inevitably becomes available on home video..
If you review this as a film- it's acting, it's dialogue, it's plot and it's cinematography- Neil Breen's movies resemble Wiseau's 'The Room'.
Neil is also the main character of his films, in this case, Fateful Findings, further supporting the argument that he's just gone a little bit crazy because of his midlife crisis .If you expect a comprehensible movie, you're looking in the wrong place.
If, however, you're looking for something to laugh at with a few friends, this is a great movie to watch.
So many things happen at the same time- Neil's character Dylan is hacking the government, then a friend of his is murdered.
I can't remember the last time I laughed this hard at a movie that's suppose to be taken seriously or I think it was.
I know I pull out references from this movie with the friend who have seen it.If you like Trash Films, this is for you.
The Best Neil Breen Movie of 2013.
Like a child playing in a bubble bath, a dandelion swaying in the wind, or a dog licking its own balls, this movie reveals to the world just how corrupted the movie business has become with its exaggerated love for "talent" and "skill" and "acting."A love letter to the lovesick, an orgasm without erection, there is something magical about Neil Breen's touch.
Although regarded as a "so bad it's good" flick, I do not feel that way as this film is so frustrating to sit through.I don't even know how to describe the storyline as the movie jumps around from one plot point to the next, and not even in a coherent way.
The movie doesn't even really develop many plot points; the drug addiction plot point is barely looked upon, a teenage girl having a crush on Dylan is never bought up, and when Dylan's friend Amy shoots her husband Jim, we never see them ever again.
However, the worst performance comes from the movie's creator Neil Breen, who plays Dylan himself, and does it so poorly that it's depressing to watch.
All in all, this glorious piece of work obviously took some effort: creator Neil Breen puts his all into this film as well as his others, each passion project being exactly that.
If you're not into not taking movies seriously or enjoying things with a certain humor, this film is not for you: it's powers are too great.
Watch this with whomever you can find, but most of all, watch this with your friends for the ultimate bonding experience.When I first watched the film, I couldn't remember ever having so much fun watching a movie, SERIOUSLY.
"Fateful Findings"- Right up there with the likes of "Birdemic" and "The Room" as one of the greatest "so-bad-it's-good" camp classics ever crafted!.
Well, frankly I think there's no other way to vote for writer/director/editor/star Neil Breen's camp-classic "Fateful Findings" than to score it based on it's impeccable and constant high levels of entertainment.
this is pure "Breen-ius" from start-to-finish and is right up there with the likes of "Birdemic" and "The Room" as one of the finest unintentionally-comedic camp classics ever made.For the uninitiated, Neil Breen is an independent actor and filmmaker who for the past ten-or-so years has built a career out of self-producing and self-distributing a string of low-budget indie thrillers starring himself as the various leads.
While some of his other films like "Double Down" or "Pass Thru" have had a greater leaning towards misguided action and intrigue, "Findings" is a straight-up Sci-Fi/Fantasy drama that is predicated more heavily on character and story...
There's a lot of genuinely uncomfortable filler inserted constantly, such as an uproariously funny moment where we see Dylan awkwardly eating a salad while another character watches him and smiles like it's the greatest thing they've seen.
Neil Breen's "Fateful Findings" is just brilliant in its insanity and constantly entertaining in its poor quality.
And his movies are definitely going down in cinematic history.For the constant (and I do mean "constant") laughs, "Fateful Findings" easily earns a perfect 10..
It's Neil Breen, who is also the star of the film.
It seems like he has never seen a movie before.It is so completely ridiculous with the bad acting and terrible dialogue that it is actually pretty funny.
Their facial hair and body types and just all around bad acting makes me think that they are adult film stars most of the time.He can't figure out when to pick up his cup or get anything right.
I think that somewhere along the line Neil Breen just kinda gave up on coming up with new things and just started rehashing old things he's already done.In "Double Down" he plays a bio-weapon / super hacker / techno Jesus that is able to hack any system and cure brain cancer.
You'd think that after three attempts at making movies Neil Breen and his friends would have managed to learn to act.
Mysticism , corrupt politics , lost romance , kicks butt and all combine for a very entertaining viewing and audience participation experience .Neil Breen , as writer , director ,continues to combine magical imaginative and metaphorical moments with social responsibility .
And then there are people like Tommy Wiseau or the man who made this movie, Neil Breen.
As bad as this is, it is worth it.Crediting himself to almost every single film crew position available, Neil Breen has taken on more roles than other thespian in existence.
Neil Breen plays Dylan, a man who once found the love of his life before he hit his teens.
But if you're interested in seeing how unbelievable a guy like Neil Breen can be, now's the time.
This is, along with Wiseau's "The Room," one of the more entertaining movies of all time, but Wiseau hasn't produced anything substantial since his magnum opus, while Breen is the gift that keeps on giving.
Now," it's a pleasant surprise that Breen doesn't appear to have gone the way of James Nguyen, purposely making bad movies in order to cash in on his previous, well-deserved success.
Breen is still apparently unaware, and that is a great thing.In the tradition of bad movies, it fails on every possible level, but in the tradition of good-bad movies, it fails on every possible level in the best way it possibly could have.The plot is nonsensical and impossible to understand.
Character motivations make no sense at all, and the movie is full of random metaphors that may or may not mean anything.Breen's age relative to a particular actress makes even the casting more than questionable in the context of the film.I can't imagine how the acting could have been made worse.
Neil Breen has praised into same level as cult heroes like Tommy Wiseau and Ed Wood.
Some scenes are tying to create lynchian atmosphere, and after that film I got the joke I once heard - David Lynch is basically poor man's Neil Breen.Amateurish and silly, 'Fateful Findings' is easily one of my all time favorites in the category of 'so bad it's good' mainly because no matter how bad you can still feel the passion of filmmakers behind this gem, and passion is important.
It pains me to see Neil Breen's work be brushed off as some midnight movie.
I had to pause the movie 5 times because I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe.I was so sure I had hallucinated the whole film that I watched it again the next night sober and thought it was just as funny.
Stay tuned for Neil Breen's next film "Twisted Pair".
I've also seen Neil Breen's earlier movie, "Double Down" and "Fateful Findings" is by far the better one..
If you think it's going to be a quality film with good acting, editing, or plot, you're going to be sorely disappointed.
It's a movie that should be watched knowing it will make no sense most of the time.
For years, movies like The Room and Rocky Horror Picture Show have been loved by thousands around the world, not for their merits as works of art but for something different from and far better than what could have been intended by their creators.
New cult hits come about once or twice a decade, and while it is still relatively new, Fateful Findings has quickly proved itself among the greats.The movie follows Dylan (Neil Breen), a man gifted with magical powers by a magical rock he found as a child.
As he dives further into his work and his life becomes stranger and more dangerous, he must find the strength to finish his work.I love this movie so much.Like many other cult hits, Fateful Findings is a film that is uniquely its own.
Breen himself works at a desk with no fewer than three powered-off laptops that he abuses regularly by throwing books at them or swiping them onto the floor.This film is all over the place in terms of its plot, characters, and themes.
Neil Breen works professionally as an architect but makes movies in his spare time and does so simply because he wants to.
"So bad it's good" is a profitable section of the industry, and any schmuck can spend a few thousand dollars and very little effort on a film that ends up potentially making them millions.With Fateful Findings, we instead have a man with a vision.
Neil Breen hates corrupt governments and corporations, and by gum he's gonna make movies about them.
It's time for the new god of film to rise to the rank of best filmmaker ever.All of the actors, while talented in their own right, owe a great deal to Breen as he has saved them from the casting couch to give them work here.
Full disclosure time: I watched Fateful Findings not necessarily with the intention of expecting a legitimately good movie.
This said, after witnessing the s***-spectacle known as Double Down, my intrigue for a Neil Breen film shot in HD and this time with more actors than just himself on a rocky ledge with a bunch of laptops and tuna fish cans and maybe one or two others shot up.
It's hard to be more terrible than that poor excuse for a snot rag, but this time Breen outdoes himself from Double Down in some ways; here he gives himself a "character" (must use quotes) who as a child with another girl found some magic rock by a tree or something, I don't f***in' know, and years later is a famous novelist working on his latest book...
Not one moment in this movie, from the performances to the would-be story, is convincing, but Breen thinks he's like the Edward Snowden of filmmakers (maybe with a touch of, uh, Billy Jack Goes to Washington), letting us all know that EVERYTHING IS CORRUPT and must be unearthed so that (spoilers, who cares) the politicians and lawyers and Wall Street crooks can admit to their crimes and proceed to (I'm not making this up) shoot themselves and kill themselves because...
From various clips and reviews, one can easily see that he has no idea how to make a movie yet he treats his films as painfully serious masterpieces, making for loads of unintentional comedy and putting him in the esteemed company of clueless auteurs such as Tommy Wiseau and Sam Mraovich.Actually, scratch that.
Breen can't even do that.By far the most memorable aspect of "Fateful Findings" is that its plot has many things happening, but yet nothing happens.
The main character played by Breen finds a magic rock as a child then watches his childhood sweetheart move away.
There are characters who wander around then vanish, a gigantic tome whose contents aren't revealed and appears at random, and scenes of a naked Neil Breen(ick) sitting in a room lined in trash bags that I think is supposed to represent him being inside the magic rock.
He seems to think that exposing high-level corruption will compel government and business officials to confess and commit public suicide to a cheering crowd in a delightfully inane ending that is one of the most unintentionally funny scenes ever captured on film.Breen's directing is as clueless as his writing.
One scene even manages to combine a fade WITH a ten-second therapy session.The cringeworthy acting is no different from the average Neil Breen film.
The wife sounds half asleep when delivering her lines, the best friend has apparently never been drunk as he has no idea how to act it, his wife hams it up worse than a high school play, and the daughter is the absolute worst as she emotes even less than Breen.
Now was pretty good, but this takes it to a whole new level.The amount of depth and emotion that Neil was able to put in this film - like in the Oscar-worthy suicide sequence - is just astounding.
I sure as hell hope this man has some beautiful films coming into the future.Breen's four main films (Fateful Findings, Double Down, Pass Thru, I Am Here...Now) are the best things I have ever laid eyes on.
When Breen finds out that his friend is dead, he believes that it was an act of suicide, but really his wife had killed him.
Someone's gotta tell King and Stielberg that they really need to step up their game.This whole movie is pretty much shot inside of ALL of what I believe to do be Neil Breen's house.
The acting in this film is awful with the main actor, Neil Breen (who is also the writer AND director) being particularly bad as well as this guy who's supposed to be an alcoholic but never acts drunk.
No, it isn't one of those 'so bad it's good' movies....
Sometimes a bad film is all you need for a good laugh, The Room is the obvious first choice for this category...
This is one of the most hilarious so bad its good movies.
I recommend you watch this movie and all of Neil Breen's other movies.
(There all on the same level of bad) Thats all I have to say about this movie please watch it you will never laugh so hard in your life..
1. Neil Breen's character getting hit by a car (it may not be the best to you guys but...it took me by surprise
"No!" (Neil Breen looks toward the camera, he knows there is)
Ok, this is the best Breeny film I've seen so far, still waiting on Twisted Pair which is most likely better.
Neil Breen has five movies now but sadly I've only seen four.
All the acting in these films is very poor quality and most of the shots are filmed in Neil Breens house or on a green screen.
I respect Neil Breen as a filmmaker and I do genuinely enjoy his movies, and it's a shame that the process of getting them is so complicated.