Who payed the critics

Purely Joyful Movie!

People are voting emotionally.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

I have watched this movie and I think i wasted my precious time of life by watching this movie actually this movie is for intellactual peoples or for doctors as it was very very hard to understand what is going on in this movie. I didn't find any interesting thing in it and just asked my self why you watched this movie.I highly recommend not to watch this movie if you are not a doctor or intellactual..I feel story writer or director should explain their viewers about this movie before so they can understand and enjoy it. but unfortunately even good looking actors doesn't made this movie to be digested.

This was a well acted, well shot horror piece with a good script, well thought-out ideas and an all around competent cast. Visual imagery was impressive, and those concepts that seemed 'borrowed' from other films of its ilk still appeared fresh and original.The one area where this film was lacking was in pacing - using an uneven mixture of uninvolved flashbacks and main story scenes, this film at times felt like plodding cross between the Twilight Zone and the Red Shoe Diaries, as opposed to a legitimate psychological thriller.Recommendations would be for the release of a re-cut version which picks up the pacing and delivers far more of the main storyline, cutting down on the heavy load of unnecessary flashbacks and needless dialog.

This movie is very watchable,yet provocative and also slightly irritating-all at the same time. The latter because the way it is presented is somewhat obscure and must be highly confusing for some people. Rather like a painter on canvas the work which is created may be obvious to the artist, but others can see it differently or simply not see the same as the artist or indeed not see it at all. Nevertheless I found this film generally good and interesting.A middle age successful man is shortly to go into hospital for a routine procedure but is troubled by a recurring dream. After he awakes from the procedure he is subjected to a series of horrendous events in the hospital. Are these events really happening or as I interpret it: is he simply going through a nightmare and experiencing his fears etc?All the performers are excellent, the design of the film is first rate and the music is often brilliant. I myself consider this movie more like a black comedy/horror and overall I conclude it deserves: 7/10.

***MAJOR SPOILERS*** It's when well to do 40 year old George Grieves went to Abaddon Medical Facility to get a routine Colonoscopy that his greatest fears were soon to become realized. George was switched with a patient named Jorge Grieves for an operation-a Sympathectomy-to prevent sweating palms! That set off a number of horrifying events that had the poor man end up on life support!While in the hospital George started to conjure up fears that he kept hidden all his life that started to eventually put him into a vegetated state. George's fears of minorities, especially Afriacn/Americans, were directed on the male nurse who was administering his IV treatments a creepy looking guy named Mandingo. Mandingo becomes George's biggest nightmare in him thinking that his dislike of whites or WASPS, like himself, will come out in the open when he's alone with him in his hospital room.As George's mind becomes more and more paranoid it's his other major fear, besides Mandingo, of being misdiagnosed which in that case, by being true, turns out to be well founded. It also turns out that George had accidentally scraped his right leg on his wheelchair, as he was about to be operated on, that caused a major streptococcal, flesh eating bacteria, infection! It's that infection that eventually had George's leg become gangrenous and later be amputated!The way things are being played out in George's heavily sedated and confused mind he as well as us in the audience don't quite know what's real or unreal in the movie. The film "Sublime" seems to go in two different directions at the same time, the real and unreal world, making it almost impossible to follow. We know that both Mandingo and George's friend, a nurse at the hospital, Zoe are real in that we see them before he was operated on which caused him to lose his mind. It's later in the movie when everything goes haywire that the two Mandingo & Zoe, as well as everyone else in the film, change abruptly and for-in the case of the sneering and sadistic Mandingo-the absolute worse. It's that change as well as everything else that happens after that which keeps you guessing to what's really going on in the movie.We finally get to know what's the cause of George's strange and disturbing hallucinations at the very end of the film that ends up destroying both his mind and body. It's not his fear of not dying but living that's in fact really messing up George's very fragile mind! ***SPOILER*** With his grieving wife Jenny opting to keep her diagnosed brain dead husband on life-support George, either real or imagined, finally gets up enough courage to find out the truth about the dreams, of him falling but never hitting the ground, that have been haunting him all his life. It's then when George finally frees himself from the self-imposed hell that he, as well as the hospital personnel, put himself through! And it's then that George can finally, after the horrors he just lived through, be at peace with himself!