Excellent adaptation.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Nothing is an independent film, a comedy of the absurd, by Canadian director Vincenzo Natali - One of those movies that you like or you hate, you get or you miss. You just have to check the extremes in ratings by the Rotten Tomatoes' Community.Nothing tells the story of two buddies -Dave and Andrew-, who have been best pals since school days, a couple of losers whose lives are a mess and going from bad to worse, until something happens and find themselves in a world of white nothingness.The movie contains Natali's recurrent themes, already explored in some of his previous movies: claustrophobic spaces and situations, characters placed in estrange situations that are difficult to explain from a rational point of view, personal and psychological change amidst adversity, among others. Moreover, the two main actors also appear in some of his other movies.The script, by actor Andrew Miller, is original, with great dialogs and situations, and explores a buddy relationship both realistically and fictionally. The setting is also incredibly interesting and perfect to start an experiment about human interaction. Despite the low budget, the movie works well both when is set in the real world and when is set in the Nothing area. I especially liked the creation of the house where the two friends live, which is more a burrow than a house, and matches perfectly the personality and type of person that Dave and Andrew are. The few especial digital effects are very effective and cute.David Hewlett and Andrew Miller are great in their respective roles, especially Miller, who has to change his acting registry dramatically during the movie; but, both actors are believable in their roles and are great lab-rats for this cinematic experiment.One of the main flaws of the movie is the connection-disconnection between the first part of the movie and the Nothing part, which is connected in a very simplistic unconvincing way. On the other hand, I thought that if the couple could vanish the world around them, they could also vanish the nothing around them and go into a new deeper territory, a real experiment., or even change those things that they hate in the real world. The end is inconclusive, although matches the crazy story and its childish characters.I found the movie hilarious, engaging, refreshing and very original. Moreover, the movie is unpretentious and takes itself lightly. Just the few credits at the beginning tell you this.Natali is one of those rare people in the world of cinema who seem to come always with great stories and ideas that are, then, slashed by mainstream critics and mainstream watchers, who praise, instead, movies that are half as interesting and entertaining.

Nothing as an idea had huge potential, but the movie just didn't quite pull it off. First of all, there is no reason ever given to why these guys suddenly have this power to wish away everything they hate. Immediately they wish away everything but their house (because they're reclusive agoraphobic nerds) which sort of writes the Writer into a corner. It doesn't take long for the characters to explore nothing and then learn to live in it & enjoy it. Instead the characters could have spent a lot more time in the normal world exercising this new power slowly throughout the movie until maybe toward the end there is Nothing. This would have had a more satisfying storyline as the viewer could sort of feel like they're vicariously vanishing life's problems along with the character, only to learn the moral is that if you don't learn to live with your problems, you'll eventually wish away EVERYTHING....just an idea.

As a fantasy, it's great. Apart from an original imaginative world, it gives a new supernatural power : The oblivion (forget the thing, anything, and in no time it'll disappear forever), inviting us to forget what we hate. But what if you hated everything and everyone, including yourself ?! Artistically it's fine too. The direction, the music, the cinematography, the acting, the set and oh yes, the CGI, all of that looked terrific. The script has many good lines and situations. It creates so fresh atmosphere, while leading the pace in such a thrilling way. And no doubt it is one unpredictable movie where you're dared to know what is going to happen later. So, where is the problem? I know. It's in that very script. Deeply in the feeling that moves it.Let's see. At first you may think that it's about facing a mega-cruel world, with a real horrific intro by the way. Then, after a while, you may think that it's about hatred, and how forgetting, wise one, can solve a lot, making the peace with one's self on one hand, and one's self with the world on the other hand. But it isn't about this or that. It is simply about friendship. Originally it doesn't focus on the outward world, since the goal is deep down inside the human. It's about the comprehension of the importance of not forgetting the friend, the love. The movie tries to assure that changed yourself or not, in your world or out of it, at any cost you have to have a friend, with arguments and problems, but not hate. Because when you don't have one, then you have nothing. Yet, that freaky ending degrades in a way the cuteness of the mix, saying that moral shockingly !I felt disappointed eventually, simply due to the tragic sense of it; whereas the 2 leads knew the truth about the greatness of "being together" while "admitting the love", and "being honest" however after totally destroying everything and everyone including themselves. So it confirms the constructive power of love, yet adversely; by confirming the devastative power of hate. Yes, we're accustomed to have these sweet meanings about love sweetly from Hollywood, and now this is the nightmarish way for it. But in fact what really disappoints is that while the movie cautions about hatred, it hated its 2 character's dumbness so powerfully !It's one of the best movies ever made about friendship. It mixes pretty well delightful infancy with black comedy, fantasy with psychoanalysis. You just have to know well what it talks about to understand and enjoy it. And be ready for its much hatred to its leads who hated, especially each other, much !

Dave (David Hewlett) and Andrew (Andrew Miller) are the bestest buds. They were picked on at school and hence decided to join up to somehow survive being losers. Dave just basically has no concept and get trodden on his whole life. Meanwhile Andrew is afraid of the outside world and has locked himself at home. Dave and Andrew live together making a perfect match, where Dave deals with the outside world with Andrew providing for the inside...Everything goes awry in this perfect life when Dave decides to move out with his girlfriend. This initiates a short sequence of events that ends up with Dave and Andrew cornered at home with two squadrons of police, a demolition crew and a lying little scout outside. With nowhere to run and hide the duo wish away the outside world - only for them to get their wish... All that is left of the world is their house and a big nothingness of tofu.The movie is mildly funny with some exquisite lines in there (with 'We're not dead! We have cable!' to cherry on top). Problem with the movie is that its a one gimmick movie. And the gimmick doesn't really fill in the ninety odd minutes of the film, which would do just fine as a semi-long short film. The jokes really run out quite fast and the serious parts aren't deep enough to make the film intriguing in the obvious direction. Albeit the actors have a nice chemistry going you get bored with the plot quite quickly. The script tries to lengthen the duration, but does so with a big hit to its end quality.All in all - brilliant at times, but ultimately disappointing.