Critical Score:  2

Starring:  Nicolas Cage

Director:  Panos Cosmatos

This is the worst movie I’ve seen in a long, long time.  I walked out after about 20 minutes.  It’s a combination of science fiction, horror, religious cult nightmare.  It’s painfully slow to get going, the talking is slow, the special affects are incredibly annoying (red lighting, yellow lighting, blurred images) and the sound / “music” is deafening and distracting throughout.  Nicolas Cage is always fun to watch and a great actor, but he really isn’t in the movie much (at least in the beginning).  Metacritic gives this movie a 81 for some unknown reason while Rotten Tomatoes scores it 7.8/10 from the top critics.  The lighting and pace was just too much.  If you were tripping, drunk and high all at once, this might be somewhat entertaining.  It looks like the director was all of the above when he wrote and directed it.