The Beta Test

An overstressed Hollywood agent, a few weeks before his weeding, gets personal invitation for a no hold barrels sexual encounter. The problem is he is blinded and identify the woman he had sex with. He become obsessed with her and the situation and things get out of control.

The movie can be considered as poor people Eyes Wild Shut; but with some comedy moments (and sometimes very annoying).

Jim Cummings, the director, loves the be the annoying/disturbed guy (as he did in the funnier The Wolf of Snow Hollow); perhaps too much . He is still funny but he exceeds his welcome in my opinion.

There some interesting secondary characters; dialogs filled with one liners that requires a lot of attention, several killings and some kind of thriller that (as in Eyes Wide Shut) is barely resolved.

The important theme of the movie is the hypocrisy and desperation that requires to stay afloat in this new ultra technological world. As hard as it seems; Cummings also keep everything on the light smile side instead of the drama.

In brief; it is an interesting concept managed in a very interesting way. Worth a try; but requires attention.

I am starting to like Jim Cummings. He is like a more neurotic Ed Burns. Impossibly gorgeous but completely flawed.

In this film, he totally nails the obnoxious Hollywood agent thing. You really just want to loathe him as he trainwrecks his way through his seemingly perfect life. But of course, he is only human - a disgusting, overbearing and weak human despite his golden boy facade.

He just can't help himself. If you like the idea of watching a pretty alpha male lose his mind and get what he deserves, this is a decent 90 minutes.

I hope Jackie's résumé was printed on anything but blood clot purple.

The main actor is quite good. He's really believable and his final big scene was impressively acted. The movie makes great points but overall it was a little boring and not scary. The ending felt rushed and didn't quite make sense. Will definitely be looking forward to more by Jim Cummings, but this was a one time watch for me.

Or the friction of a fractious mind, of a grooming groom 6 weeks before his marriage, comes into such stress that all the latent undiscovered mental imbalances and diseases come to the surface in a very sexual potent dramathriller with a hint of comedy, or is it just another one of those senseless labyrinthic writer/producer/director hyperspadic shuffles of a confused humans mind? Dont ask me, cause i cant tell.

Jim cummings do have some weird movies in his dossiere, and the beta test is simply said another complex one. But it shows how voulnerable we are in our digitized lives, where you are controlled whatever or whenever, its a nightmare on the doorstep, but it misses the real potent strings in my uvula, and that is due to its complex story where noone can trust anyone, and therefore a bookmark case of every neurotics worst nightmare. It do also have some sex acts, even though its just at a second grade of grey, itll really suck you in...

jim cummings is this film, with a little bit of help from the supporting cast, his acts are weird and demeanors shares a coocoo's nest, and with a million facial expressions that can entertain even the most demented silverscreenviewer. I do not love him , i just like him , maybe because he is a spittin image of my son.

But the film lacks some debth of reason and is so abrupt and culdesacking in its plotdevelopment that its hard to enjoy for the average viewer, its more a geek kinda freakin show, therefore just a 6 from the grumpy old man.

It started off kinda interesting, with this skeezy, toothy dog. LOL But, some parts were a bit confusing and the acting was ok, but not great. But it did have a follow-me-down the rabbit hole type mystery to it, that made you wanna see what he would do next.

I don't know about where they got the cheating statistics in the digital age as being LOWER than ever??? I was pretty sure they are Higher Now in past 20 years because of Hand Held Technology (LOL) than they have ever been, with cell phones, and tons of dating and hook-up sites, where you can reach people all over the world, not just the people in close proximity to you, like in the old days. :o I could be wrong, I'll have to look that up.

Overall, I enjoyed watch the main dude FREAKING OUT, and throwing things, and hallucinating. It could have been better, but I think It's worth a 1 time watch if your interested in this genre. ;D.