I watched this movie and right up to the end I was wondering why all the bad reviews. Then the movie stopped. It just stopped. There's not even a 'sense of an ending'.
When you do this kind of borderline surreal thriller you have to have a strong sense of story lest everything falls apart. The writer-director Gareth Tunley got the directing part right but not the writing part.
There's a lot of interesting stuff in here about Moebius strips, infinity, mind control. drug use, isolation and so on but it's never channeled into a cohesive statement or plot line. The main character, Chris, NEVER seems a like a cop on a case. He seems like a 'clinically depressed' borderline personality who is barely holding on. There's no descent in madness. He seems very troubled from the beginning.
We are taken far a field and when that happens you are always looking for something to tie it all together. The closest thing that comes to that here is showing Chris driving away from a crime he seems to have committed, seeming to be going far away from London only to find that he is driving right back into the city. This is a hearkening back to the psychologist's story of an ant on a Moebius Strip.
An engaging movie that could've been much better with more time spent on the writing.
When you do this kind of borderline surreal thriller you have to have a strong sense of story lest everything falls apart. The writer-director Gareth Tunley got the directing part right but not the writing part.
There's a lot of interesting stuff in here about Moebius strips, infinity, mind control. drug use, isolation and so on but it's never channeled into a cohesive statement or plot line. The main character, Chris, NEVER seems a like a cop on a case. He seems like a 'clinically depressed' borderline personality who is barely holding on. There's no descent in madness. He seems very troubled from the beginning.
We are taken far a field and when that happens you are always looking for something to tie it all together. The closest thing that comes to that here is showing Chris driving away from a crime he seems to have committed, seeming to be going far away from London only to find that he is driving right back into the city. This is a hearkening back to the psychologist's story of an ant on a Moebius Strip.
An engaging movie that could've been much better with more time spent on the writing.