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Actor: Anthony Hopkins, Michael Clarke DuncanBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.40:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Slipstream
DVD Review: D R O W N I N G.......I N.......T H E.......S L I P S T R E A M
Summary: 2 Stars
I LOVE STORIES ABOUT TIME TRAVEL! The movie, "FREQUENCY" is amongst my favourites. I also like watching Anthony Hopkins on the screen -- he brings a reality and believablity to every movie I have seen him in. OK -- I've seen him in only two other movies:
"Hearts of Atlantis", (where he played a "remote-viewer" on the run from the authorities), and "The Silence of the Lambs", wherein his often chillingly normally-acting Hannibal Lector, (aka "Hannibal The Cannabal", (canibble?), gave a terrifyingly
real tinge to this fictitious killer. (I remember seeing the same moments of seeming-normality when I watched Tom Snyder's interview with Charles Manson. Manson would seem SO normal for a few minutes...then his eyes would light up like a demented Christmas Tree, suddenly come to evil life...and you again became afraid for Mr. Snyder's safety, despite all the precautions you knew had to be in place....) Looking at pictures of Mr. (or actually, SIR!) Anthony Hopkins, I think he would be PERFECT, to play one of my own personal heros -- Pope John Paul II -- in his older years, if ever such a movie was made. Sir Anthony is the consummate professional --and I was definitely prepared for a real treat in this movie, which he not only acted in, but wrote and produced. A movie about one of my favourite subjects -- time-travel. Not only this, but it also starred some of my favourite performers: JOHN TURTORRO, (who's done a wonderful job on the TV show "MONK", playing the lead character's, Adrian Monk's (TONY SHALHOUB's) brother, Ambrose Monk, KEVIN McCARTHY -- whom I, and just about every other sci-fi movie fan remembers fondly from "INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS", (a role he delighfully replays in this movie (!) -- but, sadly, it is never made clear in this movie whether it is the character or the actor whom we see here!, and CHRISTOPHER LAWFORD, whose other films I sadly have not seen, (yet!)...but whose name evokes fond memories of seeing films in which his late father, Peter Lawford, appeared.
I felt I was guaranteed a treat, and settled back to totally enjoy myself as I slipped the DVD disk of "Slipstream" into my DVD player.,,,,
I must sadly report that I have rarely been SO disappointed in any movie. This may indeed, be the brilliant production of a very brilliant mind -- but my -- quite honestly -- less brilliant mind had a hard time grasping it all, at least as it was presented. The action is disjointed -- as the situations, er...slip between and amongst each other with no seeming continuity. This is SUPPOSED to be a movie about an ageing screen-writer, (Hopkins), whose characters unexpectedly come to life before his eyes. But the line between what, (and who), is real, and what, (and who), is an illusion, is never truly defined, or at least, easily defined -- at least as far as I could see. Only from the period dress, (1940s) of some of the lady characters, do you know that they are, er... "not native" to the 21st century. Whether they are real or illusions is left up to the viewer to decide. But it's real difficult for at least THIS viewer to decide, when the scenes themselves do not follow each other logically, and in sequence. If this was done purposely to make the viewer realize the complications of the main character to distinguinsh between reality and fantasy, the ploy failed completely -- at least for me. In any movie-- or play, book, ballet, or any other media -- the distinction between fantasty and reality, (if there is such a difference in said artistic work), should be drawn, and explained so the audience can UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING. For instance, if there was a "1984"ish type sci-fi made, and the people under the goverment's thumb kept their sanity, yet agreed totally with the dictum that "2 + 2 = 5", with no qualms whatsoever, it HAS to be explained to the audience that the reason for this seeming dichotomy is because....the people themselves have decided to secretly count numbers, "1, 2, 4, 5, 3". Without this information, the viewer is confused and left adrift. The many scenes in "SLIPSTREAM" which attempt to portray a dream-like atmosphere, and the difficulty of the main character to distinguish between reality and fantasy, are, sadly, not only dreamlike-- but utterly, and totally confusing. Where is this movie going? One really never completely finds out.
"SLIPSTREAM" is a very noble effort, in that it piled reality and fantasy together, hoping to impress the viewer with the difficulty the main character has in distinguishing one from the other -- but a little more logical sequencing, in both writing and editing
would have been SO welcome! Many episodes of the classic TV show, "THE TWILIGHT ZONE", dealt with the difficulty to differentiate between fantasy and reality, as well....BUT JUST ABOUT EVERY VIEWER COULD FOLLOW THE LOGICALLY-EVOLVING STORY-LINES OF THESE EPISODES. Here, the story-line does NOT logically evolve. It takes TIME for most people to realize the innuendos and subleties in this movie. Most are murky, and even the clearer ones, (such as a vulture quite unexpectedly uttering, "Have A Nice Day"), are quickly followed by even more of the confusing "is it reality or is it fantasy?" scenes which, as the scenes THEMSELVES do not follow in a logical sequence, vut seem to pile upon each other in a disjointed sequencing that makes just about no sense whatsoever, and thus make for an even more confused viewer.
Even so, I'm looking forwared, (eagerly!), to Sir Anthony's next science-fiction, science-fact, or fantasy film. "SLIPSTREAM" shows a brilliant mind at work -- it's just that people with just as much interest in fantasy and science fiction, but without quite as brilliant a mind as Sir Anthony, find it hard to follow a "scatter-scene" script, that seems, which is difficult for, I hazard to guess, most viewers to follow. So, I here respectfully suggest that Sir Anthony watch, (or re-watch), the original TWILIGHT ZONE episodes, the original episdoes of THE OUTER LIMITS, or even some of the episodes of Steven Speilberg's AMAZING STORIES. Amd perhaps, as well, ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Even the strangest stories should have to have a LOGICAL SEQUENCE to them, so that those not quite as brilliant, (and I DO mean brilliant!!!!!) as Sir Anthony can also follow them!
To make a point in a movie, the audience has to UNDERSTAND what's happenng. If the majority of viewers of this movie don't understand it, as I have not, the point is lost. And that is a great pity. Because, even though I couldn't entirely follow the story, the brilliance in the acting, and special effects, still leads me to strongly believe Sir Anthony was trying very hard to get SOME points of view over to the audience. I for one am very, very eager to know what those points were. Unfortunately, as I was not able to follow this disjointed film, I still don't know what they are. And, please believe me when I say I continue to want, very very much want, to know what they were and are. I'll be eagerly awaiting the next movie, to find out! : )
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