Michael Ledo David Thorogood (Thomas Stoppel) and Ryan Cates (Artie Ahr) are performing unauthorized computer mind reading experiments with "borrowed" equipment from the university they attend. They are both dirt poor. Ryan cares for his invalid grandmother (Erma Sullins) while David is behind on his rent. His wife (Christine Haeberman) and child (Mykayla Sohn) are being neglected. Ryan meets Jordan (Amber Marie Bollinger) and brings her into the group.The government, of which we get glimpses, gets involved and things change.I liked this "low budget" sci-fi indy. It had characters I could relate to. Like good sci-fi it asks questions. In this one it is about government surveillance and control. Where does free will lie? If the government could read and control thoughts, would they? This film is built upon our current government surveillance and Edward Snowden...traitor or patriot? And who was Earle M. Jorgensen?I didn't know that neurons snap and crackle like electricity and lightning.Guide: A couple of F-bombs. No sex. Nipple slip ( Christine Haeberman) PG-13 stuff

Internet-Police Interesting idea but falls completely flat. I know, "Sucks" is pretty harsh but let me count the ways. 1. The Evil CIA/Government has hidden cameras all over the labs of these college students. When did this happen? how did they know there were working on this mind reading hardware? No explanation what so ever. 2. You are going to let an untrained college student inject your spine with a huge needle with nanotubes? Something completely untested by them on even lab animals. If you don't kill him you may paralyze him but that doesn't seem to worry them in the least. 3. Getting kicked out to the street but no one seems to mind. 4. Acting is so wooden I thought I was watching Pinocchio 5. Strange random lighting and lens coloring with no real reason...what the hell? 6. Computer blow up but are seen working 5 mins later... wow, that's cool. 7. Government testing mind control and give the target a gun with loaded bullets ... why not leave blanks? You would end up with the same results ... Come on how stupid.Overall the movie sucks so bad the talent-less"director"/writer should give up now and do something else with his life and stop wasting everyone's time with this garbage.

Larry Silverstein Looks like I'm in the minority here, but I couldn't find much to like in this sci-fi flick that just tore credibility into shreds. Even below B- movie quality, in my opinion, the film focuses on 3 Caltech students who, through their experiments, find a way of injecting carbon nanotubes into the human body and brain, which allows one-way telepathic communication between two people, enabling one person to read the others thoughts.Of course, a large government agency, namely the CIA, knows all about their experiments and wants to use them for their own nefarious purposes. There are some twists in the movie which are decent, but I couldn't find much else to like here.All in all, this film,written and directed by first time filmmaker Khalil Sullins, may have some interesting concepts, but, for me, they were drowned out by the wooden dialogue and acting plus lots of non- believable plot elements.

krabat-0 An excellent script well performed.-- When you look at a street in almost any city in the western world today, you see cameras pointing towards the street to automatically and silently film people going about their regular business.The way to protect yourself from this kind of information gathering is by hiding your face ALWAYS, when you are outside. Which would most likely garner you a more intense surveillance - possibly wiretapping and your house bugged and your friends bugged and you mail read and electronic activities monitored, all the way up to physical intervention, incarceration, "evidence planted", defamation - possibly elimination, if the watchers cant make you.If you go on the net, there is no mechanism designed to cover your tracks and actions, which cannot be cracked - leaving your thought patterns, your needs, your funding, connections, friends, family etc wide open to blatant scrutiny or simple data gathering. Forget about VPN or Tor or what ever. One slip, and your IP is toast and not just your secrets are out, but everything your have ever shared digitally with anyone over the net.Why is that? Because ever since 9/11 USA and all other countries (in order to be able to send and receive plane passengers from all over) have treated their citizens and citizens of most other nations as suspects - potential threats to cities, infrastructure, businesses, economic structures and institutions and their national citizens too, if not for humanitarian reasons then from an attempt to prevent widespread fear and out-of-control actions taken by more than gun-ready-and-willing men and women.What if that lack of control over citizens could go away within a short while? What if USA, always seeking to be the bigger, the stronger, the wisest brother in the world, found a way to do that? What if the war on people was really patricide/matricide from blind greed, last rat gets the bigger loot?! = = = = = = = = = = = = = SPOILER = = = = = = = = = = = = = This movie explores well know themes of surveillance and mind control in order to show that mainstream people only used to guns in the media don't realize surveillance and monitoring and pooling private information is really a weapon against a nation's citizens, not a protection from foreigners.As an intellectual exercise this is kinda easy to both realize and sort of accept, but when you actually understand the implications of controlling powers being able to predict your actions and opinions and choices, it loses its intellectual shine as it verges towards actual loss of freedom - of mobility, speech, purchasing power, schooling, teaching, voting, housing, participating, giving aid and assistance etc.Population control is becoming an increasingly difficult task, as shown by the recent Sicario (2015), where whole major cities can be besieged by criminal and violent "examples" and all "loyalty" goes to those, who can instill fear, rather than to those who protect.While "Listening" may skip a bit on the realistic side, when it comes to calculating the consequences of thinking, feeling people falling pray to fascistic measures without relevant opposition - thus over-playing both spread and danger of a technological mind-control scheme - the script still manages to represent the eager greed with which possible control of people's patterns and actions is to be measured. (It IS lucky that everything living by electricity will die from lack of electricity or from magnetism. Making an EMP placed here and there hunky dory, if ever they tried anything similar in reality).But don't take the movie as a literal statement. Take it as a pointer to the magician's other hand: What is everyone upholding power doing in their free time, that they do not want out in the open? What are they doing during working hours, that they don't want to share? See this film as an argument for full disclosure - as long as it is out of VOLITION. In an atmosphere of distrust, meaning: "You go first..."