The Best Movie Twists Ever

Beautifully eerie and what an ending.

Dissapointing if I'm honest. The plot is above average but not really movie-quality, except for the subplot which is good, the animation is fit (and widescreen, woo!), the music and voice-acting and everything else are bang on par, but frankly, it's not very funny. I sniggered alot but there were no belly-laughs. That said, how clever this film gets with it's time travel and the fantastic twist at the end all make up for it if you persevere. It's not as good a movie as the greatest TV show ever deserves, but we have at least 3 more to look forwards too, hopefully they'll get better. That said, it still rocks.

Well it's all just a pointless bit of foreplay leading up to an awesome twist, really. Yes I understand the messages and such in the foreplay, I just don't care about it.

Wow, amazingly twisty mystery movie.

What this film does magnificently is that it weaves a jigsaw puzzle of pieces of film which are out of order which you slowly but surely piece together and things start to make more and more sense towards the end of the film, by which point you're perfectly content with what happened.
It creates a real sense of disorientation which is part of putting together a magic trick. Keep the audience distracted. The film mirrors a magic trick (quite intentionally) from the word go.
The cast are all extremely competent and you can have alot of fun star-spotting (OMFG IT'S BOWIE!!! I F'ING LOVE THAT GUY!). The film is also shot nicely and has all the usual nice trimmings such as music and so forth.
What it does best though is plot. It's a fairly paint-by-numbers twisty thriller, however, it's execution, mostly with it's disoritentation that can only be pieced together right before the end that I already mentioned, more than make up for it. It's very good.

Personal enjoyment: 8/10
Actual quality as a film: 9/10

David Cronenberg is a fucking genius. This film is incredible.
It's dull, dingey, slow paced, and as such is extremely hard to watch in many ways and I'm sure many people will be turned off as a result. However, I found myself trapped in it's glare like a rabbit in the headlights of an approaching car. I couldn't break away from it's monotonous sense of gloom and it builds to a fairly powerful ending (although I saw aspects of it coming I must admit).
You have to be able to 'read' a film to enjoy this. It's much like the stuff of David Lynch but with some grounding, which I why I think Cronenberg is a vastly superior film-maker.
I'm not going to dwell on acting or music or anything because none of that particularly struck me, it was all decent, but none of it was anything special (sorry Ralph, sorry Miranda). The art design and direction are what shine through in this film and keep everything perfect.
This is a filmed nightmare, just a somewhat of a dull, yet mezmerising nightmare. Not a "scream in terror" nightmare. It's really a masterpiece on it's own terms.

Personal enjoyment: 7/10
Actual quality as a film: 10/10

A fairly atmospheric (though Shaun of the Dead did a better job with the same style) and well made low-budget film.