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It was alright

P. Jirasek | Illinois, USA | 12/04/2007

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Rolfe Kanefsky (Writer/Director) has got to get over whatever kind of existential deeper meaning type undercurrent that he keeps trying to throw into his later movies. It's just done awkwardly and as a result feels forced to add meaning to what could otherwise be just a fun movie.
Basically a complete and utter nerd gets this cellphone that after an accident develops a personality and allows him to control other people's minds. Being the typical nerd that he is he has lots of problems with women and in the cliched kind of way completely overlooks the 1 friend he has that just so happens to be a cute girl. (Can you believe it?)
Anyway predictable hi-jinks ensue, or at least are attempted with nothing seemingly able to go quite right for the hopeless protagonist. For instance he uses his cell to give him a "long lasting" erection so that he can have sex with his brother's girlfriend. And his parents come home from the mall. You venture a guess as to what happens.
This movie was alright. I was looking for a good hypnosis themed movie with some nudity and enough of a plot to keep my mind interested. The hypnosis was not so good. And the other two were pretty average. And the poorly developed moral at the end kind of took away from it as a whole.
As I stated this director has got to get away from adding some kind of deeper meaning to his B movies. He's bad at it, and his premises don't really call for it.
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