Best movie ever!

Awesome Movie

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

The Source begins as troubled teen goth Reese Hauser (Mathew Scollon) & his Father Jerry (Johnny Venocur) look to start a new life in a non discript American town somewhere. Things get off to a bad start as Reese quickly finds himself & his goth lifestyle being ridiculed by just about everyone else, add this to the fact that his Father is the new history teacher, the school principal McKinley (Ronald Rezac) is a bit of a bully himself & things are not going well. However Reese is befriended by fellow losers, goth's & nerds Zack Bainbridge (Edward DeRuiter), his sister Ashley (Melissa Renee Martin) & their friend Phoebe Lewis (Alice Frank). While out exploring some lithium deposits in some local woods the four discover a magical rock which concentrates all the lithium's power into one stream which, when stepped in, enhances ones psychical attributes as well as unlocking secret dormant powers, Zack calls it 'scionics'. Zack gains the power of telepathy, Ashley has the power to control others & phoebe has the power of telekinesis while Reese has the power of psychical regeneration & healing. At first they use their new found powers to gain a humiliating but ultimately harmless revenge on their tormentors, that is until one of the group decides use their powers for rather more sinister reasons...Edited, co-written & directed by Steve Taylor I was quite surprised at how much I didn't hate The Source, I think that's a better way of putting it than how I much I liked it as I don't really want to give the impression that The Source is any sort of masterpiece. The script by Taylor & Roger Kristian Jones moves along at a fair pace & to be brutally honest rips-off The Craft (1996), or should that be borrows some of it's ideas & themes? I unexpectedly quite liked the character's in The Source, they all have just enough personality to be likable which was essential if The Source is to work as a film & engage the viewer while a special mention goes to the the girls in The Source who are seriously hot which doesn't hurt. Generally it's pretty lightweight stuff, it doesn't even try to say meaningful things about serious issues like bullying, depression, conflicts with parents, theft & friendship that The Source brings up. Instead it skates around them a little which is fine as the acting & writing involved isn't really up to high drama, but we do get lots of special powers being put to good or bad use & where on Earth did the idea of a magical rock come from? The Source also went into a direction that I didn't expect & a nice climax.Director Taylor turns The Source into a feature length music video. He tries everything, editing tricks, shots where the camera tilt's back & forth for no apparent reason, hand held jerky shots, slow motion, reduced frame rate, the image turned upside down & various other gimmicky techniques. One more thing I have to point out is that The Source is probably the brightest film I have watched, from the garish clothes to the outside scenes where the grass looks so bright it would glow in the dark & for some reason there are flashes of light shooting around the screen all the time almost as if someone was shining a torch on random objects in the scene, very strange & I'm not sure what it's all about. The Source lacks any real violence or gore, a cut arm & a few splashes of blood is about it while there isn't any nudity either.On a technical level The Source isn't too bad considering that the budget must have been small to say the least. It was obviously shot on video rather than film which might explain why it looks so bright, unfortunately when something is shot on video it has that cheap 'n' nasty look & feel to it. The music sounds like it has come straight from a techno rave CD while generally speaking it's quite well made. Apart, that is, from one or two poor CGI special effects particularly at the end. The acting is decent enough & I think I'm in love with Melissa Renee Martin...I wasn't expecting to but I actually rather liked The Source, it's nothing to heavy, it's good fun & provides 100 odd minutes worth of entertainment. Don't get me wrong it isn't brilliant but I personally think it's well worth a watch.

We are currently in the middle of watching this movie, me, my husband and my 12 year old son. We're really enjoying it because it is SO bad. The characters are undeveloped and unbelievable, why doesn't anyone notice their eyes changing colour? I love the thought of being able to read everyone's minds, and of course being able to get revenge on anyone who has ever been mean to me. We had to look it up to check it wasn't deliberately tongue in cheek. The scenery in the woods and the speeded up segments remind us very much of the power rangers, as do the shots of the four standing back to back before going off to fight the baddies. We do indeed feel seasick as a result of the rocking camera work. A great movie for a Saturday night in with the kids!

SPOILER!!! Oh, man. If you like shots of actors hovering in midair and glowing like crazy, you are going to LOVE this movie. Seriously, this is a kind of amusing science fiction romp that could have been about half an hour shorter. Highlights include:Nearly every scene features a cool mirror-ball like dappled light playing over the actors.The protagonist, Reese the Goth, listens over and over again to a song that is almost, but not quite, that Marilyn Manson song that was really popular in 1998.There's a wonderful scene where Reese first goes to his new high school. Reese is an outfit that might be considered gothy if you consider any outfit with black in it gothy, but all the wholesome students immediately start shrieking at him and asking if it's halloween. Fortunately, it looks like the costumers raided Hot Topic for the rest of his outfits, which are unambiguously goth.Ashley, the mean, punky girl, dresses like she is from the dystopic future of Japan.There's a wonderful subplot involving some bearded guy in a garage who knows all about computers ans psychic phenomena and looks kind of like the director of Lord of the Rings.Reese gets to come to terms with his mother's suicide through the magic of glowing rocks-powered psychic combat. I guess that was a SPOILER!!!!In conclusion, this is a wonderful way to pass an hour and a half or so. If you can watch it with friends, you'll have an awesome time, or you can just sit alone in a darkened room watching it and sobbing to yourself! It's a SCREEN GEM!!!!

This film fails on so many levels I don't know where to begin. Let's start with the shoddy plot in which 4 high school "misfits" (best looking group of misfits I've ever seen...) find a "magic" rock in the woods and once they "float" over it, each develops a special power that they use to exact revenge on the teachers and students on campus that treated them badly. Unfortunately, the "revenges" consist mostly of tripping people, making them sit in garbage cans or pick their noses in public. Ooohhhh, that'll teach them!!Such a blatant rip off of The Craft (which was actually a pretty good movie) but this one sports terrible acting (if you can call it that), minimal plot explanation (they just get powers from this glowing rock in the woods...how lame). A terrible, unrelated sub-plot of one of the teens mother's suicide (complete with bloody maggots in flashbacks) just adds to the stupidity and incoherence of the story.The cinematography consists of super-saturated colors, fast music video like cuts, strobe lighting dancing around in the background and a continuous tilting camera effect that makes it look like you're watching it all on the high seas. I actually started to feel queasy during some scenes and was ready to drop anchor 20 minutes in. The only nice special effect is when each of their eyes glow different neon colors while using their powers. They're all sooo Pretty!!!;8^)A complete waste of time. F minus. Go rent the Craft instead.