blakematthewtompkins
You want to know what LSD is like... Watch this movie. This movie is one of the most mind-blobbing, trippy, classification-defying flicks I have ever seen. It is a sure adventure through faith, horror, love, death, disease, torture... And unexplainable, unquestionable chaos. It was a great movie, and a piece of art in it's own style. If you like psychological- thrillers, this is your type of movie.It leaves you questioning, thinking, identifying, so messed up this movie is, it gives you a migraine. A horrifying, claustrophobic, terrifying experience.Watching is movie is basically like having a really bad dream while having an extremely bad trip on LSD, and when you are done watching the movie, it is like you are coming out of it.
lfeeney-55-402042
I also disagree with negative comments about the flashbacks and the viewer's ability to differentiate between current time, flashback, and imagination/hallucination. One thing my husband told me when I first started watching sci-fi films and reading sci-fi books is you have to be patient. Trust that everything will make sense in the end. And for me, it did just that. I thoroughly enjoyed this film. In some ways, it reminded me of Jacob's Ladder, but shot differently. The themes of regret and longing resonated with me as well. I would highly recommend this film with one caveat: be patient. Trust that it will all make sense in the end.
dparrott79
The director over used funky lighting effects and camera angles. My girlfriend and I both got headaches from it. I didn't really see the reason for their overuse.It was also hard to follow. People were appearing and disappearing, things were happening randomly - it just really didn't make much sense. I turned it off after a while. I don't care if I didn't get it or whatever, because I don't really think this movie is worth a terrible headache.To get a similar effect, sit in a dark room, turn on a strobe light and try to read a book in a foreign language.
art-321
OK, first & foremost this can best be described as a mind-f**k film. I'm sure there will be some reviewers out there who will see this as a "breathtaking masterpiece" but these are the same people who can see Jesus in a hunk of cheese. For those of you not blessed with this gift, you are more likely to get to the end of the movie & go Huh? It's like you took a couple of guys on acid & locked them in an editing room until they finished your movie. That being said, it does merit being watched because of the unusual camera work, the in your face lighting & big close up shots of someone's eyeball while they're freaking out (a la Blair Witch). Apparently our lead character has lost a young daughter & then base jumps off a roof, goes to Moscow, crawls underground, sees radiated people, hallucinates, sees his dead daughter, watches his friends get shot & disappear, camera spins around has flashbacks to a happier time when daughter was alive, wakes up, boards a train, sees his life flashing by on TV's then end of movie. That's all while the camera is wobbling around like a drunk on a tightrope. So if you would like some serious eye candy (or just like to get high & watch movies) then I recommend this film.
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