Slipstream

I have one request, Anthony Hopkins: Sir, please stick to acting, because Slipstream does not show that you could succeed as a screenwriter and director. Slipstream looks more like something made by a young music video creator who has watched several famous Lynch films and thought it was nothing difficult and decided to try it too. Visually and content-wise, it does resemble Lynch's quirks, but the characteristic surrealism and hypnotic atmosphere of Lynch's works are missing. Instead, we get frantic editing and a lot of pointless "gimmicks" with which Lynch skillfully manipulates the viewer, but here they clearly lack any meaning. This is a case of a film that I had had enough of within five minutes, but because I felt foolish being done with it so quickly, I suffered for longer, hoping my opinion would change. Perhaps some of the scenes are unintentionally stupid to the point of being amusing. In all aspects, it is a failed experiment. Overall impression: zero multiplied many times over. However, I can recommend it to intellectually oriented snobs and masochists... (12/07/2010)