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11/03/07
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
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
What would have perhaps made an excellent short subject becomes a cumbersome, confusing and deeply unsatisfying mess of a vanity project.
10/28/07
I'm glad that Hopkins has apparently been using the bland, middlebrow stage of his acting career to experiment with massive doses of psychotropic chemicals and open the doors of perception and all that. Next time, maybe he'll just write a manifesto.
10/25/07
If 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
A Hopkins personal vanity project
11/09/07
Anthony Hopkins wrote and directed Slipstream. It's a free-form, surreal meditation on stuff that, evidently, popped into Hopkins' head while he was writing.
10/26/07
Slipstream is utterly unwatchable. I hated every minute of it.
02/28/08
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 CriticHas 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
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' surreal take on the absurdist nature of movies--and reality--bears the traits of many works by actors-helmers: It's self-reflexive, whimsical in movieish way, and self-indulgent but it's never boring due to talent in front and behind the camera
10/11/07
A miserable mess of a stream-of-consciousness movie.
10/28/07
Say this much for Anthony Hopkins' project: If he's going to indulge himself as a writer-director-star, it's probably better that he goes completely off the wall.
10/25/07
Alternately interesting and unwatchable.
02/29/08
Annoying, pretentious twaddle of the highest order.
06/16/07
...makes you long for a pretentious, arty student short. Because those are only about eight minutes long.
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
The 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 CriticAt 96 minutes, this vanity/insanity project runs a bit long; five minutes would have been plenty.
10/26/07
Latest News for Slipstream
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:
Trailer & Poster review
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