Either one of the most self-indulgent vanity projects in the history of the Hollywood star system, or a rare revealing look at a distinguished actor who usually keeps his real self out of the spotlight.
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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
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
Slipstream is utterly unwatchable. I hated every minute of it.
02/28/08
Leave it to a 69-year-old actor to make the year's most experimental film.
10/26/07
Top CriticSlipstream is bold, experimental, off-the-wall kicky and utterly exasperating.
10/25/07
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
Straight-up bonkers.
10/25/07
Alternately interesting and unwatchable.
02/29/08
A visual masterpiece and an amazing achievement in cinematography and editing.
01/25/07
Even second-rate David Lynch and third-rate Federico Fellini is worth our attention.
10/24/07
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10/29/07
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
What would have perhaps made an excellent short subject becomes a cumbersome, confusing and deeply unsatisfying mess of a vanity project.
10/28/07
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
The resolution ties up enough loose ends to be satisfying, yet makes you think long after you’ve left the theater.
01/30/07
A Hopkins personal vanity project
11/09/07
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
[S]o fascinating a failure that it's worth seeing...
10/26/07
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 CriticAnnoying, pretentious twaddle of the highest order.
06/16/07
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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