Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Tss5078 When you watch a Terry Gilliam film, you should expect for there to be a fair amount of weirdness. When you add Science Fiction to the mix, there is the possibility that anything can happen. With this in mind, I was really excited to see The Zero Theorem, and what I got was simply one of the worst films I have ever seen! Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz) is a computer genius, who has been assigned by Management to discover the meaning of life. He does this alone in an old abandoned church. This movie made absolutely no sense to the point where I don't even know how the hell to describe it in any way that would do it justice. Waltz is running around like a madman the entire time, talking so fast, with that accent, that he's impossible to understand. He meets Tilda Swinton at some type of party, and she keeps showing up for some unknown reason, personally I just think it's because she's weird and she likes being in weird movies. Waltz has all these odd computer programs, strange characters he interacts with and talks non-sense with, all in a film that moves faster than his internet connection. I really just didn't understand a thing that was going on and watching it a number of times or doing any amount of any drug in the world wouldn't change that. How is a solitary man playing strange computer games supposed to discover the meaning of life? Who are all these people who keep showing up? What in the hell are they talking about, and what does anything have to do with anything? I'm not entirely sure that another person on this planet besides Terry Gilliam understands what was going on in this film. All I know is that no one should have ever been exposed to whatever this nightmare was intended to be.

rzajac Every now and then I see a flick which really does appear to be one in which the scenarist/writer successfully got a message radioed in by a very pure channeling of the subconscious mind, then never got around to asking the subconscious what it was on about. In this case, the subconscious might have told the writer, "Oh, I need to get an important message to..." me; the guy writing the IMDb comment you're reading.Now, hang in with me here. I say "every now and then" for a reason. If flicks did this more often, I'd look into getting on meds. The point here is that there are just a few too many data points that touch on aspects of my life which... seem... (tho I could be wrong on this) *very* personal.Qohen is very much me. I suppose there may be more folks like me than I realize, and Gilliam & Co. thought to give my forgotten caste a little love, this go-'round.There are, of course, more general, social and technological commentaries which are are like a fish tank water in which swim many interesting species. But Qohen is an odd fish indeed, and very much reflects what I'm going though in my life.I think this flick languishes in the 6.x IMDb score doldrums because... well, for the same reason that a film pitched to my little demographic would bewilder most folks; just as I tend to bewilder most folks.It's a flick that yearns to reach out to all, even though it's not a universal story; how many people are thinking like Qohen?; that he can use the tools provided by an evolving hi-tech/hi-stimulation milieu and turn them to the effect of achieving Bodhisattva-hood? Essentially, building a raft from the flotsam and jetsam of a society that inhumanly bends you to its damnable rules and riding it down the existential maelstrom of ultimate negation, successfully, via the application of a perfectly understood principle?Technically, the film is an absolute wonder. Gilliam's famous penchant for swimming, kaleidoscopic detail is expressed very, very well here. I've always loved this. Also, for such a bizarre film, there's an aspect to production which is strangely "old school": Specifically, the script feels like a stageplay with a fingernail grip on discernible narrative, the actors driven by ogrelike forces to breathe life into it in spite of itself. Again, another cause for the film to alienate some, yet find a niche in my tired old heart; when done "right" this works for me, and by my lights it's done right here.

Richard Boase I'm a huge Terry Gilliam fan, and I love all the themes in this movie, plus I adore Christophe Waltz, but Gilliam somehow gets this is all wrong. The sets are O.K. but the dialogue is all off, badly written, somehow clumsily executed, this film disappoints in a myriad of ways, which is sad, given Brazil and 12 Monkeys' success. What Gilliam usually does well, madness, the incoherence of modernity, technology and man, the workplace is somehow lost in this movie. It's routine. What could be brilliant is lacklustre, what could shock and amaze, bores. The VR suit, the love-story, the boss, the boy genius, the programming, it's all 2-dimensional and paper-thin. It's just a bad movie. There were so many options for this: so many possibilities, yet, the plot is so simple, so basic, it's as if it were written for a 12 year-old. Perhaps that's the point.

Corey W. Allen (coreyallen) Despite displaying early brilliance in his work, Terry Gilliam's more recent work has been extremely disappointing and lackluster.With some positive critical buzz, and by his own description of this latest project on a Talkhouse interview, I looked forward to watching Zero Theorem on Amazon Prime. Christoph Waltz is typically compelling, but he looked lost in this story, like he was above the material. One sign a movie isn't good is when the most positive thing you observe is the set design. After an intriguing first act, the second act slowed the momentum to an annoyingly frustrating lull. At some point I found it hard to believe that the female lead character turned from a minor femme fatale or red herring into a major tangental distraction.Though the intended "nearby future" vision seemed realistic in its pursuits, the ideas and even the computer graphics are nothing phenomenal. I kept thinking to myself that I'd seen this movie before...in the '90's in the form of films like Lawnmower Man and Strange Days. Those predecessors were more successful in achieving their intended visions than this unfortunate waste of time.