Primer (2004)
There is a group of four people who are doing amazing inventions, where they have succeeded in creating new systems to check their customers' mistakes, with some unexpected side effects that seem somewhat impossible. It is a real struggle between the four pioneers because of that amazing invention that could change their lives.
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August 24, 2010
Ridiculous, confusing, vaguely noir-ish nonsense.
June 04, 2007
Scary, puzzling, and different.
December 03, 2004
The ingenious debut of writer-director Shane Carruth, who assembled the film on his home computer and also plays one of the two leads, is purposely designed to be a little bewildering.
July 22, 2009
Discombobulating and mind-bending sci fi thriller. I think.
April 22, 2013
Where's Doc Brown when you need him?
February 08, 2008
Mind-bending thrillers like Primer are terrific viewing with your teenagers. Maybe if you're nice, they'll explain the ending to you.
February 09, 2006
This film imagines its viewers to be smart, possessed of a decent attention span and game for a challenge. It doesn't happen all that often.
April 13, 2013
Shot for a begged and borrowed $7,000, 'Primer' looks it: grainy-ish, fuzzy on details and effects, acting running the gamut from A to B, and clipped incomprehensible technobabble for dialogue.
June 21, 2007
Oh, man, they don't make 'em like this often. A film unabashedly for the nerds in the audience (God love us), this is the type of film you could inflict upon your enemies, watching them squirm as they stare at the screen.
December 03, 2004
It's one thing to admire what writer/director/composer/actor Shane Carruth wrought on his $1.98 digicam budget; it's quite another to have to sit through the mind-numbing results.
April 29, 2009
An exceptional science fiction film...
December 03, 2004
An unapologetically cerebral movie of ideas.
