Omar Naïm, 2004
5.5
bland, inept filmmaking. you've got a highly underwritten script that, admittedly, has some great, fresh new ideas and themes going for it, but writer-director Omar Naïm does not seem to know where to go with these, nor does he even elaborate much on the ones he works with, and Robin Williams is fine as the man responsible for cutting these precious lives down to two hours films but he's not even remotely intriguing or interesting enough to bring me along so i was left with intellectual ideas and wasted leads. i will say this, though, the sets (James Chinlund did the production design, Kelvin Humenny was the art director, and Shane Vieau did the set decoration -- all of it beautifully shot by The Silence of the Lambs' Tak Fujimoto) are beautiful; as quiet, controlled, and perfect as Williams' Cutter character. Naïm also spelled out way too many of his ideas for me to care. so, at one point, i just gave up. the first thing you'll notice (hopefully not because you won't have rented it) when you watch the film are the impossibly frequent bursts of laughably incompetent acting (most notably from Jesus himself (Jim Caviezel), sporting the fakest, ugliest beard known to man). as with the worse of sci-fi, this film feels cold, detached, and too intellectual for its own good and forgets to back it up with real human emotion. the end result was way too banal for me to care.
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