Slipstream fails miserably as a film about moviemaking, writing, REM sleep and historical atrocities.
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10/25/07
Slipstream (2007)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:9
Rotten:30
Average Rating:4.2/10
Consensus: Slipstream is a failed experiment; confusing instead of coherent.
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Anthony Hopkins channels his inner David Lynch for this MULHOLLAND DRIVE-like descent into the warped mind of a Hollywood screenwriter. Felix Bonhoeffer (Hopkins) appears to be losing his grip on... [More]
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Turturro, Christian Slater, Stella Arroyave
Director: Anthony Hopkins
Reviews for Slipstream
Alternately interesting and unwatchable.
02/29/08
Annoying, pretentious twaddle of the highest order.
06/16/07
Slipstream ultimately winds up an avant-garde film that just ain't all that avant.
10/26/07
The editing-on-speed renders Hopkin's "experiment" inacessible to the degree that the movie will be lucky if it makes two cents.
10/20/07
A miserable mess of a stream-of-consciousness movie.
10/28/07
Slipstream is an experiment in visual stream-of-consciousness, but stream-of-consciousness fares better as a literary form than a cinematic one.
10/26/07
Top CriticA visual masterpiece and an amazing achievement in cinematography and editing.
01/25/07
Has one trick up its sleeve, and once that trick is revealed, the film collapses in on itself in a manner that will irritate more viewers than it intrigues.
10/26/07
Leave it to a 69-year-old actor to make the year's most experimental film.
10/26/07
Top CriticIf consummate thespian Anthony Hopkins downplays, even dismisses, discussions about the “craft” of acting, then Slipstream, only the second film he’s directed, betrays evidence that it’s a subject to which he’s nevertheless given a lot of thought.
10/25/07
Slipstream is utterly unwatchable. I hated every minute of it.
02/28/08
A Hopkins personal vanity project
11/09/07
Blaring its pretense to Lynch-ness, Slipstream crumbles under the weight of Hopkins's self-indulgence, yet there is some measure of sincerity to this senseless upchuck.
10/21/07
Hopkins' ambition is laudable, but what he has produced is a handsome, admirable failure, a labor of love and an extremely personal film with extremely limited appeal.
01/25/07
An avante-garde, admittedly experimental, absurdist, through-the-looking-glass glimpse of behind-the-scenes movie-making, it's the Mad Hatter's Tea Party.
10/19/07
Hopkins claims it's a comedy, and perhaps John Turturro's live-action cartoon of a mogul producer suggests so, but what does it all mean? That art can be just as shallow as Hollywood?
10/23/07
Slipstream is Anthony Hopkins’s third film as a director and his first as a quasi-avant-garde filmmaker working well outside the mainstream.
10/26/07
Top CriticThe veneer of stylistic hyperactivity can't conceal the starkly banal dialogue and a roster of performances that seem, under the circumstances, hardly directed at all.
01/25/07
Top Critic[S]o fascinating a failure that it's worth seeing...
10/26/07
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September 24, 2008:
An Audio Conversation With Anthony Hopkins: On doing Nixon, Hannibal, Hitler and Hitchcock, and what does it all mean. 
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October 16, 2007:
Stylish attempt at Hopkins visualizing post-traumatic Hollywood syndrome, but there should be a rule that movies helmed by movie stars turned directors need to come with some sort of equivalent of the Surgeon General warning label.
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October 06, 2007:
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