Jackpollins Review of Slipstream

Slipstream (2007)

Anthony Hopkins makes a movie that's very good in small doses

[6/10 · 10 August 2009]

I've always liked Anthony Hopkins. That's why when I was looking at his filmography, I automatically went out to rent Slipstream when I saw it because I had no idea what it was. While watching this I had extremely mixed thoughts. A couple of words I was thinking this movie was is interesting, heavy, weird, ludicrous, entertaining, head-ache inducing, good but only in small doses, cool, great. The movie is a day inside the mind of director Felix Bonhoeffer (Hopkins). He thinks up Kevin McCarthy fan bank robbers, Ray (Christian Slater), and Mort (Michael Clarke Duncan), weird actors, and recent and past memories. The movie is only stuff going on inside his head. This gets a little old. The nice thing is the beginning leads to a great twist at the end. I think the twist saved a lot of the head-aches I got during the course of this movie. It's a movie that will be good if you watch it 10 minutes by 10 minutes. If you watch it at one time, it will induce major headaches. That's exactly why I watched it twice. The second time watch it at one time, it will really sink in with you. This is why I am recommending this movie with reservations. Those reservations being watch it in small doses the 1st time, and at one time the 2nd time, and be ready to switch your brain tunes every minute or so, because it will require different parts of your brain to fully understand this interesting but only mildly rewarding and satisfying film.