Review of Rubber (2010) by Andy B — 30 Jan 2016
I'll go with a hard-ridden cliche- An experimental film where the experiment fails. Yes, I get it. It's a cine-ramic double mirror/ paradoxical cross-section/ filmographical Russian nesting doll of perspectives on how & why we watch movies and big jabs at common story structure.
But all those things have to amount to something and be entertaining above the baseline to work as a film. Instead all the charm is lost in pretentious cinematography and some kind of mathematical exercise in surrealism.
It's never as funny, dark, clever or inspired as it really could have been. I was *so* close to giving it 1.5 stars but one thing, I guess, earned that last .5 star & kept me watching, Roxane Mesquida.
It's a cheap trick to hire a sexy French girl in order to keep your viewers from walking out & I would've been guilty of biting that base hook but the scene with her speaking through the mic wired to the explosive dummy was very funny to me.
And it was the only moment of cleverness that actually worked, turning the camera back through the screen and exposing the baseness of what can appeal to me enough to watch through 90 minutes of otherwise extremely dull material.
She's good though, right?
This review of Rubber (2010) was written by Andy B on 30 Jan 2016.
Rubber has generally received mixed reviews.
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