This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

The acting in this movie is really good.

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.

Blistering performances.

After recently watching The Pianist, I next watched Rubber. One can argue what a great film The Pianist may be, but to argue that Rubber is something other than garbage is a total waste of time.

This film wants to be its own critic, as well as a critic on the film industry. I actually don't think anyone short of Woody Allen or Fellini can pull that off, and I don't think they actually have, at least not in my book. So, call me a snob, but RUBBER is not even close to what I would expect as a scathing rebuke of cinema.What we *do* have is THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS (Weir, 1976), itself an excessively sarcastic film (as well as a cousin to the Michelins here), mixed with perhaps a lower-budget EASY RIDER, without the sauciness. Now, regarding the stabs at filmmaking, we have a focus-group audience out in the desert, served a turkey that kills them. Well, the filmmakers certainly didn't have high hopes, did they? So I guess they'd figure, head off the critics at the pass. The idea that one spectator survives by merely not eating what is being served makes it seem that there's more than meets the eye, more to stay alive for, but even here the writer(s) just can't bear it, so they eventually put even this castaway (in a wheelchair yet!) through the paces, including letting him believe he can be part of the creative process.OK, so maybe you're thinking, "that doesn't sound so bad." Maybe if they'd stuck to this sort of premise while still making something substantial or stylish, but unfortunately the filmmakers made a dud inside a dud. Don't get me wrong, it's just interesting enough to see if they'll go full Monty Python, but it just falls flat like a bad episode of Reno 911.I can't fault the logical progression of events, except for the mannequin bomb, which Wings Hauser points out is quite stupid, but do we really need to be told that?FInally, the tire squadron makes it to Hollywood but somehow the conquest ends there. I found this ending to be entirely oppressive, though it felt like I was being told this was the Martin Luther King Jr. of tires. Sigh.

The first scene of this movie tells us what this movie is going to mean, and that meaning is nothing or rather I should say "no reason". With this in mind were off to our journey of following a killer tire. Yes, you read that right we are following a seemingly sentient tire that goes on a murder rampage starting from small animals to a small community of people. I am not going to go in anymore detail in the movie and start to tell you why I enjoy this movie. I like the way it was shot, for a whole lot of nothing the film actually looks good, the desert atmosphere adds to this film. I feel like if it was shot somewhere else it wouldn't be as good. The cinematography is very smooth, there are no quick cuts, edits or jerky camera movement everything seems to flow very fluidly despite the odd nature of the film. The characters are self aware of the movie, like they aren't characters in it but are watching the events happen from a distance. Half way through this movie your'e probably going to ask yourself "why am I watching this movie", and maybe that's the point (despite the opening saying otherwise) Why do we watch movies? and why do we enjoy them? what makes a movie good or bad? or is it all subjective to the viewer. That is just my interpretation of the movies message, or at the very least the question I asked myself throughout this movie. That being said, it's not for everyone, it's slow, it's odd, and to most meaningless. But if you're in the mood for something experimental, but not off in the deep end check it out.

RUBBER is a film that wants to be hip and cool so badly that it physically hurts. It's a high concept - so high it belongs in outer space - comedy horror about a sentient tyre that goes around killing people and things. That's it. There's no attempt to rationalise or explain the events on screen, it's just one death after another, with lots of wraparound stuff to pad out the running time.This wraparound stuff goes for self-referencing in a big, post-modern way. Classic films are discussed and a group of audience members seem to be watching the film in the same way that the viewer at home is. Unfortunately, to enjoy this film you seem to need to be to find the events taking place on screen funny, but I never did. Watching animals - and later people - getting blown up by a psychic tyre didn't make me laugh.What RUBBER offers is cheap gore and cod, pseudo-intellectual dialogue, without any decent acting. I suppose the desert setting recalls favourably the likes of TREMORS and the special effects used to animate the tyre aren't bad, but otherwise this is a dog's dinner of a film.