Slipstream (2007)

Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder mystery script, and unaware that his brain is on the verge of implosion, Felix is baffled when his characters start to appear in his life, and vice versa. Extremely weird and bizzard and alongside with some weird perfomances from an excellent cast 'Slipstream' tries to be a smart Fantasy Drama but it ends up being a weird full of fast forward cuts and flashbacks that don't make sense at all..

'I'm Boo Boo. I'm the bipolar bear..' For some reason this line stuck with me, made me laugh.First impressions are less than favourable. How can I explain it? Slip Stream plays something like:Freeze frame, slow motion, fading from colour to black & white, overlay one frame on top of another, flick back & forth rapidly between frames. The experience feels like an intense eye workout. Who ever edited Slip Stream appears to have had a field day with an editing suite.Needless to day, Slip Stream isn't for everyone. It at least offers an interesting experiment.Slip Stream takes place in Vegas. From time to time, the camera pulls back to reveal the filming of Slip Stream, thus all those behind the scenes (cameraman, director etc) appear in front of the camera. Then there's those moments off set. While all this is going, the thoughts of those involved in the production are revealed in the form of brief cutaways. Needless to say, the line begins to blur. In this sense, it reminded me times of Inland Empire.

Why did I waste 1.5 hours of my life watching this? Why was this film even made? Why am I even commenting on this film?One reviewer said this film took patience to watch and it was n't for everybody. I cannot figure out who this movie is for. maybe after dropping a hit of acid, SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE could watch this and make some sense out of it. It is incoherent, it isn't experimental, it's plain and simple garbage. The film follows no plot line whatsoever, just when you think you have something, well.....you don't. I think the ending brought some finality to the film (no pun intended), the viewer gets a glimpse of what might have been going on. I don't think I put a spoiler in here, not that it would matter. This film is another must miss in the world of filmdom.

What a muddled mess. I saw this with a friend a while ago and we both consider ourselves open-minded to the many wonders of cinema, but this sure isn't one of them.While there very well could be some good ideas/concepts and there are certainly some good performances (under the circumstances), it is all buried under random nonsense. Sir Anthony draws way too heavily from the same gene pool as Natural Born Killers, U Turn and similar films as far as the editing is concerned, or maybe he watched himself in Nixon for inspiration. Say what you want about David Lynch, but at least he more often than not has a method to the madness.His quote of stating that he made the film as a joke says it all. It's not worth your money, bandwidth or time.