Slipstream

2007
4.8| 1h36m| R| en
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Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder mystery script, and unaware that his brain is on the verge of implosion, Felix is baffled when his characters start to appear in his life, and vice versa.

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Also starring Stella Arroyave

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Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Claire Dunne One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
winopaul The most obvious example of a meth-film was Slingblade, the short, not the full-length movie. I am sure Billy Bob was locked in some bathroom after a 3-day run, with his gravelly meth-voice, and his creepy character talking to himself in the mirror. "Some call it a Kaiser blade, I calls it a sling blade." Other obvious meth-films are anything by David Lynch, Pulp Fiction, and now this Slipstream flick. But here is the thing. After Billy Bob did his three-day run, he went straight for a few weeks as he wrote Slingblade. As his dopamine levels returned to normal, he was able to make a relatively sensible coherent short film.Same for Pulp Fiction. I am sure that the crystal helped Tarantino chop up the time line and have all kinds of quirky speeches and strange happenings. But Quentin did get off the pipe long enough to straighten out, and made a mostly straight movie out of his dope fantasy. Indeed, maybe that is the difference here. Tarantino just snorted the stuff, whereas Hopkins is boiling it off a piece of tin foil and sucking up the smoke with a toilet paper tube.And not even the ingestion method would explain the stupidity of this film. See, this film was not only conceived in meth, it was written on meth, acted on meth, produced on meth, edited on meth, and they sure had to be on meth when they released it to the theaters.I bumped it up to a 2 since they have that black girl that was in the Law and Order franchise playing Bonnie. I love her and it was the only reason to watch this exercise in over-stimulation. I will admit that its nice to watch a movie that you don't even have to see the ending before you know it sucks. There is a certain integrity in that. Twenty one minutes to go, and I am not hopeful. Crap, I am missing Antiques Roadshow reruns for this. And the Roadshow has more of a plot and substantive narrative than this mess.Opps another reason to watch, John Turturro is in it, And OK around 35 minutes in, it almost turns into a movie instead of a visual flash fest trying to give seizures to Japanese schoolboys. Oh, never mind, an hour in and its brain splat time again.And for the next disjointed meth-fest movie, please add a gratuitous scene of an Abraham Lincoln speech "Four minutes and 7 years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new movie, conceived in drug abuse and dedicated to the proposition that grown men can act like children for eternity." Make sure he really sells the lines.
Breumaster OK, the makers tried to make some intellectual movie, i guess. But it's only boring watching this. It's too confused and easy to loose the line. I've seen a few intellectual movies, some good, some pretty good, some pseudo, some boring and this is pseudo intellectual plus boring. No, i never watch this again. Some aspects are interesting, but the whole movie is not! I saw that Anthony Hopkins, an actor of some really valuable reputation acted in this movie, so i bought it. But his Talent is wasted in this movie. I wish he would have made any other movie instead of this. But OK, everybody Needs some vacation sometimes. ;) They tried so hard to make something special, so the sense got lost in extreme otherness - for what? They could call it "Wasted Talents" too, the title would fit. :(
mistoppi If there's a movie, which is directed and written by the same guy who also acts and composes the music in it, of course I'm going to watch it - especially when that man is someone who I admire.After reading about the movie, I was pretty sure I shouldn't expect simple plot, simple storyline. I was right, the plot is very complex, and it felt like it was layered, even if that's too simply described. I enjoy complex, layered plot, but of course it doesn't always work. It wouldn't work in thriller or adventure or anything like that, but it works for experimental drama like this.The special effects are one of the things I'm very critical about. Mostly because they could easily cause headache, and I think the movie should have some kind of epilepsy warning on it. But the effects worked pretty well – they strengthened the dreamlike atmosphere the movie had almost all the time. Also, it's very hard to explain the plot without giving too much away. It's mostly sitting there, watching, trying to figure out what's happening, and then suddenly it's "oh" and you can see it so much better. This basically means that you have to watch the movie at least twice to completely understand it, to figure out perfectly what is happening and what probably isn't happening, etc. One kind of special thing about Slipstream was the music. Because while I was watching the movie, I didn't really pay attention to it. It was there, but it didn't draw my attention from what I was seeing. But I liked the movie, I liked it very much. Anthony Hopkins seems very talented writer and director, as well as composer.
AndrewGHickey What a muddled mess. I saw this with a friend a while ago and we both consider ourselves open-minded to the many wonders of cinema, but this sure isn't one of them.While there very well could be some good ideas/concepts and there are certainly some good performances (under the circumstances), it is all buried under random nonsense. Sir Anthony draws way too heavily from the same gene pool as Natural Born Killers, U Turn and similar films as far as the editing is concerned, or maybe he watched himself in Nixon for inspiration. Say what you want about David Lynch, but at least he more often than not has a method to the madness.His quote of stating that he made the film as a joke says it all. It's not worth your money, bandwidth or time.