Very well executed

Overrated and overhyped

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

WARNING: SPOILER ALERT!!!Do not be mislead by the pointless, misleading synopsis. Like the excellent "Final Approach" the synopsis bears only the loosest relationship the the film and could be construed as misrepresentation under the Trades Description Act. This is a GOOD THING (tm).A truer synopsis might read something like this:"A touching and tragic drama about the development of psychosis.Two high-school best friends: Mattie is a confident musician but her wealthy home-life is remote. Jess is shy and likes science, with an equally remote but harder home life.After a car accident, in which her best friend Mattie was driving, Jess suffers very serious head trauma: a bizarre case of locked-in syndrome; unable to communicate with the outside world Jess's fantasy becomes her reality and in a surrealistic twist her reality becomes increasingly and confusingly entwined with the real lives of others. These are: Mattie and Mattie's boyfriend Riley, Aiyana (the school psychologist) & Mark (a science teacher) at the start of their own relationship, and the ambulance men who provide first-aid.The personal demons of Aiyana & Mark provide them with the ability to sympathise with the increasing bizarre life of Mattie as her reality merges with that of locked-in Jess.Ultimately, Mattie seeks forgiveness for the tragic accident, which though given, in a Faustian twist, takes upon herself the personality of Jess; thus releasing Jess who becomes Mattie's other personality in developing full-blown schizophrenia.(There is some mumbo-jumbo pseudo-science about quantum entanglement to explain why this group are brought together, which is rather unconvincingly given and best ignored, hence this film gets an 8 not a 9.)

I am appalled to read all the negative reviews on this movie based on its slow pace and apparently incomprehensible plot.I actually enjoyed it a lot.It has the nerve to let things go unexplained for an hour or so, which is a refreshing change from all the plots that seem to make sure the dumbest kid in the theater will get an answer served on a plate less than five minutes after any issue was raised.Actually, it cannot resist the trend entirely, and serves us a contrived sort of explanation near the end, that rather ruins the poetry of it in my opinion. Oh well, I suppose that was added to calm down the producers...As for the supposedly slow pace, I found it rather well suited to the depiction of the relationships between the characters, which is the essence of the story.I found this movie rather touching and beautifully played, especially by the lead role who shows a promising talent.Without the explanatory scenes, this small gem would have proudly stood the comparison with Donnie Darko.

First of all, forget the official synopsis. This is not a sci-fi flick about the collapse of spacetime or anything like that. It's misleading and it's a shame, I think that is what has put some people off.What it is though is a rather clever mind screw as the result of a car crash. Stick with it and it all starts to make sense, it was interesting to try to guess what was going on and I almost got it right. There are some very clever and emotionally charged plot changes. The acting is not that bad, especially when the get to the crunch of what is really going onThink of it as similar to the butterfly effect, for a low budget movie this really was a clever storyline if a little too long before it got to the real emotional crunch point of the car crash itself.

It's rare to see a director get so far over his head, yet so far up his own butt at the same time. While trying, and utterly failing, to map out a complex story, the film cannot connect the dots between simple human interaction. Bad writing, bad plot, atrocious acting, and Dean Cain and Malcolm McDowell sleepwalking their way through this clunker en route to the SAG minimum paycheck they must have earned. Hopefully next time (should there be a next time), I hope the producer saves up his paper-route money and spends it on a better script and director, instead of C list actors. One might assume (as I did) that this would be some discount bin B- Movie disaster flick, but sadly it can't even live up to that. They re- titled it, gave it an action packed cover art, and tricked us into watching one of the dullest bits of cinema I've ever encountered. If I found out that writer was twelve and the director autistic, I wouldn't be the least surprised.