Slipstream (2005)

Nice effects though.

best movie i've ever seen.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

They had me at time travel, but they lost me with a terrible story. This 2005 movie is really dated, and not really something that you can enjoy today. I like Vinnie Jones and I think we all like Sean Astin, Ivana Milicevic from Banshee is in there too, and between the three of them you would expect something much better. From the start the story is just a complete mess, and the players are all just running around uncertain of where they should be, there must have been a lot of angles shot for each time loop, but it really seems to have confused most of the actors a lot. The gun play is like an old episode of A-team, as they bullets fly, and only when it is good for the story does anyone ever get hit. Really sorry I missed this one when it came out so that I could now be 9 years older, and have perhaps forgotten most of it, sadly that is not the case for me, and I did not Enjoy this movie at all. I really wanted to like this, and if you asked my Son he would tell you I give time travel movies way more time than they deserve, but because this is so bad, and I'll be more specific; The acting is awful, the time travel is handled floppily, and the action is aimed at those with IQ's in the single digits. So stay far away from this even if you are a time travel junkie like I thought I was until watching this.

Believe it or not, Slipstream did have an intriguing idea and did have potential to be good. Unfortunately it squandered this potential by very poor execution. The effects are actually not too bad and neither is the scenery, but I couldn't really enjoy them with the lighting being so dull and the overuse of rotating shots. The dialogue verged on cheesy and stilted, the pacing was dull and meandering and the story was predictable and by the ending(which was little more than a clichéd cop-out) contrived also. There are even seemingly two versions of the same scene, both poorly written and have no sense of continuity within each other or the film. The time travel stuff had potential to be interesting but turned out incomprehensible instead, and there are no well-developed or likable characters, made to do clichéd and irritating things. The acting is also poor, Sean Astin is good with worthwhile material but is stuck when not so, his performance here is the latter, coming across as annoying instead. Vinnie Jones' acting is also limited for the same reason. Even the soundtrack was convoluted, just a string of tunes that added nothing to the story or the atmosphere. Overall, the concept was good, and the scenery and effects were better than I thought, but the film itself tried too hard and ended up failing big-time to thought-provoke, entertain or even maintain interest. 2/10 Bethany Cox

OK sorry GU but I don't mean to eat a dead horse or any thing hear because e IMO sure you've all ready my comments already but heres the thing.I still don';t buy it. How did he get the clothes from the pullet and I know it said that sometimes your always take back int IMO the th INS your touching but why wouldn't he take back the poi-lets clothes with him? Im not even really sure what to think so I wintry to see this movie again yesterday also and It didn't end the same but it was still the smear movie you know? I am getting kind of tired of this from Froddop Baggins. OK cause I really expected a better effort from this movie OK Sand this time I think hes gone one notch too far from for froddo baggins. Is there anyway anyone could send me a copy of the movie because I hear in the special featueretes they explain a lot of it with a plot twist,.Okease OK!

It's not as awful as some people think, or as good as a few think.In fact, the average rating of 4.6 is about right. I'd give it perhaps a little lower, about a 4.It never ceases to amaze me how a Hollywood director will spend millions, even tens of millions of dollars or more to produce a film, and try to create an illusion, and then shoot it all to heck by getting sloppy and sticking an obvious wrench into the believability. Without giving any spoilers, I spotted two very obvious believability wrenches.This is a film with quirky direction. I guess they tried to make it different. Well, I guess they succeeded.I call it a "minor" time travel tale because that's simply how it feels.