MindGamers

teetering between a 4 and a 5 for me; it's pretty, shallow, and confusing... weak plot built out of decent premise.

it tries for the mindbendy wow that was managed in films like inception, but misses considerably...

i feel like if you enjoyed "the cell" there's a chance you'll enjoy this... it is pretty, i'll give it that

I didn't know what was going on most of the movie. And the ending was even more so.

Pretentious, very over-acted, though I blame script and direction for that. It wanted to bring a coolness and edge to a critical analysis of religion and existentialism. It cast science in terms of religion, or religion in terms of science. It balanced the individual against the concept of a group consciousness. It played on the idea of reality as something that one could shift into and out of as a counter (or complement) to determinism. The film over-reached a fair bit and occasionally broke character to toss a line to the likely bewildered audience to help them get over some of the more significant leaps. There was too much slow-mo of Melia Kreiling, as delightful as her screen-presence is. Still, moderate effects, some decently pretty visuals, actors making the best of their material and it's not the worst thing I've seen lately. You're better off (re-)watching the Matrix for an equivalent sci-fi edginess that touches on similar philosophical topics but is way better (and doesn't show its age at all).

The title of my review says it all. Not much of a story. It seemed like at first this might be a good watch, but for each idea they had...they move onto another extremely strange ordeal. Again, visual salad.

What utterly contrived garbage, it spent so much effort making itself look "alternative" yet "trendy" that it forgot to actually include anything remotely like a coherrant story.

Sam Neill is about the only redeeming feature in this drivel, it's core ideas were interesting but it completely wasted them.