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08/09/03
On_Line (2002)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:15
Rotten:24
Average Rating:4.6/10
Runtime: 86 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Set in Manhattan's cybersex industry, "On_Line" at first appears to be about people getting off without ever touching (if you've never done it you'll learn, from one explosively directed sequence,... [More]
Starring: Josh Hamilton, Harold Perrineau, Vanessa Ferlito, Isabel Gillies
Director: Jed Weintrob
Reviews for On_Line
Amateurish drivel, which is headed for Skinemax in a hurry.
10/03/03
It makes you wonder, is there is a market for soft-porn movies for lonely geeks? Isn't that what computers are for in the first place?
06/27/03
The movie epitomizes the problems inherent in attempting to depict new (and constantly morphing) media -- the inevitable obsolescence, the intangible particularities that resist or get lost in translation.
06/24/03
There's something so familiar and commonplace about this story and its characters -- and maybe that has something to do with how much the Internet is a part of our everyday lives -- it's hard to get particularly thrilled.
07/11/03
What lingers here is great sadness for a lost Atari generation.
06/26/03
Doomed by Weintrob's passion for the Web, his passionless characters are little more than manipulated 'bots' -- and audiences, absenting possible hipster appeal, may vote more zeroes than ones for this digital tale.
07/01/03
The same old 'people are lonely' whining, only with new technology.
09/18/02
Writer-director Jed Weintrob is so busy trying to make important statements about human relationships in the cyber age that he loses control of his whiny, unlikable characters.
06/27/03
A triumph of formula over substance.
06/27/03
This would-be erotic thriller suffers from the same problem that afflicts so many computer-oriented movies -- namely, that watching characters staring at a screen and typing hardly makes for a thrilling cinematic experience.
06/27/03
Top CriticA 90-minute hairy-palm horror show, one that will strike terror into the heart of anyone who shares a keyboard with a lonely, Web-crazed roommate.
08/15/03
Take away the computers and DSL lines and it's the 1950s of Jules Feiffer and Mike Nichols and Elaine May all over again, without the shrewdness and bite.
06/27/03
While On Line pretends to be about cyber sex ... it's really about sitcom situations and cyber-schmaltz.
06/27/03
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03/29/04
Weintrob's stylish visuals mimic Web technologies, which succeed in making his characters seem all the more removed from reality. Now if someone would find a way to equip theater seats with a 'delete' key, we could be rid of them completely.
07/25/03
If On_Line fails as a narrative, at least it can purport to be the first movie showing foreplay-to-climax sex chat masturbation sequences.
06/26/03
The youthful cast is lively enough to make the enterprise almost work, presenting a time capsule of cyber- communication that should be more interesting 20 years from now.
09/11/03
Structurally innovative, if not terribly insightful, look at sex in the digital age.
06/27/03
It's really just about a bunch of pathetic losers whiling away the hours with their hands jammed down their pants.
06/26/03
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