I don't know what happens inside Richard Kelly's mind to make him come up with a movie like this one, but I'm sure there is medication to combat it. Thing is, I'm pretty sure it's almost genius, but almost at a quantum scale which is still an infinite distance away.In the aftermath of terrorist attacks on American soil, the President has expanded the scope of the Patriot Act to Orwellian proportions, instituted biometric regulation for the Internet, checkpoints between states, and started a three-prong war in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. To cope with the sudden loss of available oil, a German company run by Baron von Westphalen (Wallace Shawn) creates a green energy source utilizing tidal forces. This has a side effect of somehow creating a rift in the space-time continuum. Movie star Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson), his porn star girlfriend Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), a cop (Seann William Scott), and a scarred Army vet (Justin Timberlake) are all caught up in the ensuing apocalypse.
This felt like the world's worst Saturday Night Live skit, an impression helped along by the presence of Cheri Oteri, Amy Poehler, Jon Lovitz, Jeanine Garafalo, and Will Sasso. It just doesn't work as a comedy. It's too stupid to be a satire and not stupid enough to be a slapstick. It is almost distressingly bad, in fact. I expected more from the guy who did Donnie Darko.
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