Cl.One

An uplifting and mind-twisting film that is worth your time.

You will grow to love the two very different lead characters. A great independent film that follows in the footsteps of "Croupier". A delicate picture of struggling might have beens.

One is a good first effort by a novice director. Good acting, excellent special effects and cameos by Cleveland news celebrities make this a relatively painless way to spend a couple hours. The weak points were the script and editing which made the story confusing in some parts and overly simplistic in others. Tomeric shows that he has the technical skill to make a reasonable science fiction movie- it will be interesting to see what he can do with a decent script in a more challenging genre like comedy or drama.

I was actually an extra in this movie, along with my buddy Matt. The setting for our scene was down in the Tower City belly somewhere. Jason seemed very professional and the experience was once in a life time.

It also turns out that a teacher of mine was once of his directors or producers or something, which was cool. We got to talking one day in our audio/visual editing class and i mentioned the film, and he said he worked on it and showed us some pictures. What a small world.

The trailer looks great, but I have yet to see the full version. I heard it is being re-released in August of 2006, if anyone can confirm that for me, drop me an email, I would really like to see the movie in its entirety.

OK, so I haven't seen the full film--has it even been exhibited yet?--but Jason Tomaric showed me his trailer at the Digital Cinema Expo in January 2000. Fantastic, highly creative. Despite its low budget, what I saw of this film looked like a million bucks--or at least like a well-produced episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It used the standard desktop effects packages and prosumer gear to achieve an epic post-apocalyptic fantasy backdrop for a personal story. Send me some e-mail, Jason, when it hits screens, big or small.

Perhaps I could get over the generally poor quality of this movie's production standards if it hadn't been for the sound. But the Casio soundtrack is almost the only thing the audience can hear. It drowns out the dialog to the point that there is no chance of actually watching the entire DVD. Naturally there is no captioning either. Even if the sound had been edited properly the fact remains that this would be a D minus movie at best. It has the overall feel of a rejected Sci-Fi Channel Original. The pathetic computer generated graphics put the special in special effects. And I mean special in the Special Olympics sense of the word. They truly resemble the graphics from the original Play Station, yet we are intended to believe that they are footage of the transportation of the future. Again, poor effects can be forgiven, but the thin plot and sad attempt at social commentary cannot. If you can actually sit through the whole thing, you should have yourself checked. You may be a clone genetically engineered to survive the most heinous of tortures, really bad movies. Not even Joel, Crow and Tom Servo could make this one watchable.