Reviews

One thing is obvious about this movie, even after several minutes of watching: it lacks special effects, all kinds of em. Which is a good thing, if you ask me, because movies that rely on visuals and/or sound tend do be crap, as demonstrated by the year of 2005. The concept behind BWP, however, is to make the viewer's imagination compensate for the aforementioned lack of effects. And indeed, a well-developed imagination surely is much more effective then the potential of all the animators, composers, choreographers, etc. of Hollywood put together. However, all this is somehow very poorly realized in the movie. Not creepy at all, imho. I personally had a feeling similar to watching the Animal Planet on mantis mating.

So out of 10 possible points, I give 5/5 for an original and very interesting, as well as ambitious concept behind the movie; and 0/5 for the actual rendition, which was dreadful.

First of all, I declare not having seen the "Firefly" series. :) My bad. I'm saying this because it seems that there's more talk about that series, rather than about the actual movie, and this leaves an impression that seeing the movie without having seen the series is a waste of time. Well, it's not.

There's only one thing that should not be mistaken about this movie: one should not expect something clever, worth a lot of attention and so forth. The movie, in my opinion, is of a rather simple, nonetheless entertaining style, and it fulfills its purpose without much help from the viewer - all you have to do is watch. This is an absolutely different breed of movies, which are rather trivial, but are good for relaxation, leisure or entertainment or whatever. Nothing serious, however.

And one more thing: I did find the plot a bit underdeveloped. However, it may be because I am not familiar with the whole series of a prequel, "Firefly". But if you take the movie as an independent piece, there most definitely is something missing. Not that something is not clear - on the contrary, everything you need to know becomes clear by the end, it's just that by the end of the movie, I had an involuntary comment that sounded something like "all this fuss, for what??" It seems like the whole thing is no big deal. Maybe it's the characters overacting, or the plot being underdeveloped, the abundance of cheesy moments and clichés or simply my ignorance of "Firefly". Whatever the reason, a certain combination of shortcomings gives this movie a flavor of underdevelopment, which is characteristic of all American movies, especially those spawned in the 21st.

I find it difficult to comment this movie, honestly. Without revealing anything, that is. This applies to comments only,as the evaluation would mostobviously be 10/10. You see, having read in one of the other comments here, that the movie contained an implication on heroin addiction, I expected to find something similar to "Requiem to a Dream" - a movie that leaves one single message and a bouquet of associated feelings in a viewer, with the message being DRUGS ARE BAD, in big friendly letters. I was wrong.

I guess those who enjoy psychedelic music will understand what I want to say better - this movie has a high. Not literally of course, but it does leave you in a different world, with lots of ideas, without any definite beginning or end. It is very, very weird, in the most positive, awesome meaning of the word. Definitely not another conformist movie with a moralistic message behind it. Which is a good thing, really, because we don't get a lot of that nowadays, and 1991 isn't that far away....

The only thing about it is that you either love it or hate it. Nothing in between.

I find it quite impossible to add anything without revealing the plot. Therefore the only thing I'm going to say is: watch it! Not the best movie in the world, but most certainly the strangest one, at least from my point of view.