Touches You

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The most obvious example of a meth-film was Slingblade, the short, not the full-length movie. I am sure Billy Bob was locked in some bathroom after a 3-day run, with his gravelly meth-voice, and his creepy character talking to himself in the mirror. "Some call it a Kaiser blade, I calls it a sling blade." Other obvious meth-films are anything by David Lynch, Pulp Fiction, and now this Slipstream flick. But here is the thing. After Billy Bob did his three-day run, he went straight for a few weeks as he wrote Slingblade. As his dopamine levels returned to normal, he was able to make a relatively sensible coherent short film.Same for Pulp Fiction. I am sure that the crystal helped Tarantino chop up the time line and have all kinds of quirky speeches and strange happenings. But Quentin did get off the pipe long enough to straighten out, and made a mostly straight movie out of his dope fantasy. Indeed, maybe that is the difference here. Tarantino just snorted the stuff, whereas Hopkins is boiling it off a piece of tin foil and sucking up the smoke with a toilet paper tube.And not even the ingestion method would explain the stupidity of this film. See, this film was not only conceived in meth, it was written on meth, acted on meth, produced on meth, edited on meth, and they sure had to be on meth when they released it to the theaters.I bumped it up to a 2 since they have that black girl that was in the Law and Order franchise playing Bonnie. I love her and it was the only reason to watch this exercise in over-stimulation. I will admit that its nice to watch a movie that you don't even have to see the ending before you know it sucks. There is a certain integrity in that. Twenty one minutes to go, and I am not hopeful. Crap, I am missing Antiques Roadshow reruns for this. And the Roadshow has more of a plot and substantive narrative than this mess.Opps another reason to watch, John Turturro is in it, And OK around 35 minutes in, it almost turns into a movie instead of a visual flash fest trying to give seizures to Japanese schoolboys. Oh, never mind, an hour in and its brain splat time again.And for the next disjointed meth-fest movie, please add a gratuitous scene of an Abraham Lincoln speech "Four minutes and 7 years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new movie, conceived in drug abuse and dedicated to the proposition that grown men can act like children for eternity." Make sure he really sells the lines.

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.

This movie is once again, one of those movies that someone thinks or tries to make others think that they understood it. Anyone who tries to make any sense of this is a MORON! My advise would be to take TWO not one but TWO hits of very strong acid and at least you'll get a visual thrill out of it!! Although at the end you may kill yourself for wasting your acid!!!! Being that this comment requires 10 lines of info, let me write something for those of you that will try to defend the movie. Unintelligble. Garbage. Schitzoid. Waste of talent. Movie is ice, with paper on destination with ringing clouds, on a sunny dive in the pudding.... Sounds like lion in a red light with seeing hair. Now explain that to me!!!!

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.