When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

"A criminal threatens to destroy Washington, D.C. with a nuclear bomb unless seven people with 200+ IQs can solve all the world's problems in one night." How's that for the premise of a Christian film? It sure beats "A pop star struggles with her faith," or "A man must convince his brother-in-law of the importance of Christ in the Christmas season." A lot of people, including many Christians, dislike Christian films because:1. They tend to be lower-budget and lower-quality, cinematically speaking, then most other films.2. In an attempt to be "family friendly" and "wholesome," they often avoid or trivialize serious issues.While "The Genius Club" can't overcome the first criticism, it seems as if the filmmakers recognized the second criticism, and decided to make a film that does nothing but address serious issues. Welcome to a Christian film that is not family-friendly. I can't think of a single other Christian film where characters make statements like, "Cancer hasn't been cured because that would mean the loss of millions of jobs in a booming health care industry.""Solving the world's problems" takes the form of a debate between the seven genius characters and the villain. As time goes on, the stakes get higher, and they go from talking about things like politics and war to things like good and evil. As long as the debate is going on, which is most of the film, the dialogue is pretty well-thought-out and covers deep ground (it slacks off during the breaks, though). You might expect a character to make a statement implying that all the world's problems would be solved if everyone became Christians, but that does not happen. Instead, the film's thesis seems to be that we need to let of greed, let go of hate, and love one another. One of the seven is a seminary student and another is an atheist, and there is some debate about God, Jesus, and religion, but it is not antagonistic like in, say, "God's Not Dead," since the seven characters are seen as working together against a common adversary. Actually, the villain here is a more reasonable and rational character than the professor in "God's Not Dead."Overall, I enjoyed "The Genius Club" as much as I enjoy movies that I would normally give an "8," but I have to give it a "7" instead, since some of the dialogue and acting was very unconvincing, especially towards the very beginning and the very end. Even so, I consider it one of the better Christian films I have seen, as it has meatier and more mature content than most others. I recommend it to people who are open- minded about Christianity and, for that matter, budgets.

This is hands down one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen. The person who wrote this apparently thought that by telling the audience (this movie is all tell, no show) that their characters were smart, they could trick the audience into thinking that what the characters were saying was smart. No dice. This thing actually pulled out debunked "science" from A 90'S CHAIN EMAIL as "proof" of God's existence. Every single philosophical argument the writer thinks was a "zinger" is drenched in failure, and all of them have been refuted thousands of times by much smarter people than the ones portrayed in this film. And that's just the bad dialogue. Add to that the premise that the destruction of Washington DC would, in this movie's mind, be LITERALLY THE WORST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED IN THE HISTORY OF EVER (tell that to Hiroshima or the victims of the holocaust), the fact that, at the end of the movie, EXACTLY NO PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN SOLVED, a "twist" ending that not only makes no sense, but makes the preceding film A THOUSAND TIMES WORSE, and you have a truly awful, insulting, and worthless film. I wouldn't even recommend this to fans of bad movies, it's that bad. Do yourself a favor and skip this pile of fail.

I hate to say it. but this movie is gonna fail in the box office. for the same reason no one showed up to its screening. but this will be one of the most entertaining cult movies ever. although it lacks the glam and actually will turn a lot of people away before they even get to the box office do to the subject matter, but they will all be missing out on a must see movie. I don't think i've cried this hard in a long long time. this movie isn't really intended to be anti-cancer, but there is some of it. Its more of a satire on the reality of people and how much we're willing to believe or willing to be dooped. I see it similar to liar liar not being about about the legal system but the moral and ethical decisions of people within society. overall I would have to saw this is a great great movie. Highly recommend it. And could not imagine this movie to turn out any better than it has already been with the perfect cast and great story line. I think the best way to encompass the movie is paraphrased in the movie's catchy line 'our world is one big beer commercial.

I've seen this movie several times, and I have never even gotten tired of it. It does deal with college books, but approaches it with a level of sophistication and intellect never found before in sci-fi movies. Genius walks a very fine line between reality and the comic-book world, at the same time walking a very fine line in terms of audience perception. Some chalk it up to be a silly comic-book movie, others a brilliant intellectual movie. And yet, there are still others that maintain Genius Club theme does not exactly make it a world-issue movie. It's more of a drama, just like the Sixth Sense was more of a drama than a horror movie. Both are excellent dramas, but Genius CLub was superior in every aspect.I especially admired the camera movement, and the framing of certain scenes to bring to life an actual comic-book. I also admired how Genius was heavy on dialogue, making full use of subtle gestures, movements, and actions to represent the character's thoughts. The character's environment plays a similar role and certain colors are often brought up to represent distinct emotions and thoughts the character has.In the end, there are a number of things in this movie that can cause people to quickly denounce the movie, but these are all dependent upon perspective, as there's nothing truly wrong with the movie. In fact, if viewed objectively and with an open mind, the viewer might be much more apppreciative of Genius CLub.