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Surveillance 24/7

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The thing about plot-driven movies is that they have to have a tight plot, which this doesn't.

It's fun to watch. It does a very good job of being very matter-of-fact about the lead character's gayness. The movie isn't about "being gay", but it is central to the story, which is nice if you like gay flicks.

The editing is fun and creative, and the characters are fun to watch. Pretty boys, pretty girls, fun accents, good actors, nice lighting. Music was OK, but not particularly wonderful, and sometimes it was intrusive or not quite right. It seemed pensive sometimes - think piano bar and violin - and this wasn't a pensive movie.

This might be a spoiler alert here:

But the key part of the story is this cell phone, and everybody's looking for it, but the thing is, this movie is about constant surveillance, but no one thinks to triangulate on the cell phone? And the ending twister makes the whole movie totally stupid. At the end, what was the point? I totally didn't get it. And why did they try to "warn him" with a near-miss, if all they needed to do was ask him for the cell phone? It's not like they didn't know he had it, or where he was?!?

There is a real movie to be made about living in a pan-opticon society, but this isn't it. If you like watching pretty people running and emoting, this is an OK movie.

In response to another reviewer: The Making Of on the DVD makes it clear that the story took years to be developped, and so YouTube didn't exist at that time (it was created in 2005).
This is not a pop-corn movie, but an entertaining What If? story with a believable development, and a lot of twists and turns. I thought the storytelling was rather intelligent, I'll certainly watch this film again to catch what I missed the first time. The actors were all uniformely very good, with the gay aspect of the story mixed into the plot in what felt as a very natural way. We have few thrillers with gay characters as leads, and this one is definitely a keeper.

Although I enjoyed the movie it is definitely hard to follow the plot.
So if you are planning on a make out session this is not the movie.
I like it because it tries to merge other genre and it is not just "another gay movie"
there is suspense!
and it makes you think. what will the future hold?!

This movie was one of the worst films I've seen this year. It made no sense. It had no objective or motive but to be completely and utterly stupid. I guess I am supposed to give a reason for the way I feel about this. Well, the reason is this:

YouTube.

Sure, I'm willing to give anything far-fetched and fictional flick a second look. After all, you can't find a better Blade Runner fan than me. But when it comes to a movie trying VERY HARD to take itself seriously and refuses to meet the audience halfway then I've had it.

Yes, this film was about a stupid movie made on an i-phone that for some reason the protagonist did not think to put on YouTube. Instead, he lets his friend die. He allows himself to lose his career in teaching. He does nothing when he's accused of being into child porn. He does everything he can to make his life and the lives of others around him COMPLETE and total garbage! WHY? Because he doesn't think.

If he had put the stupid movie on YouTube, it would have spread like wildfire and he wouldn't have had the problems he did. I'm furious that this movie was made. I'm furious that it was even funded by someone. (You wasted your money!) Finally, I'm mortified that I lost 1 hour and 26 minutes of my life watching it. Time I will never get back.

If I could rate this less than one star believe me I would.

This movie is a bomb. Don't watch it. I promise you'll be disappointed. Also, the tags suggest there is male full frontal nudity. PLEASE! There wasn't any! It's a joke.