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Waste of time

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

What goes through a screenwriter's mind? When does everything merge into everything else and become one huge canvas where you can draw from everything at once? This is the premise, I gather, of the film. Anthony Hopkins has written and directed a stream of consciousness surreal film that allows us, the viewer, to evaluate the actions and scenes for what they mean, which could be something or nothing at all. The casting of the film is brilliant, with Christian Slater, Jeffrey Tambor, S. Epatha Merkerson, and others too numerous to mention all giving a performance of lifetime in a film which really doesn't have a plot at all. Is this the movie that flashes before one's eyes at the moment of transition? Rated R for language and some violence, this is definitely not for the timid or the weak, and certainly not one for the Entertainment Tonight set. Don't get me wrong, I like to be entertained as much as the next guy, but watching Slipstream is more like attending a showing of Dali's paintings or reading a Virginia Woolf novel. This one gets into your head. Collectible like the volumes of Shakespeare you have on your shelf, you have to open your mind to the possibilities.

Warning! Contains a spoiler! I watched this film and find it very confusing. Storyline was really mixed up and it was hard to understand at first. It was like Alan Wake game, but only more confusing. I don't recommend this film to anyone who likes direct storyline. I find it very strange when this so called writer just sat in his car and the crazy guy shot thru his windshield and the young woman was sleeping and she was not even bothered. Another strange scene was when younger hat man shot black bartender in bartender's car. The reason was what? When these two hat guys went to diner at the desert then the movie become the strangest, they was acting very weird. After that scene I realized that they were filming this film Slipstream, enough confusing eh?

I've always liked Anthony Hopkins. That's why when I was looking at his filmography, I automatically went out to rent Slipstream when I saw it because I had no idea what it was. While watching this I had extremely mixed thoughts. A couple of words I was thinking this movie was is interesting, heavy, weird, ludicrous, entertaining, head-ache inducing, good but only in small doses, cool, great. The movie is a day inside the mind of director Felix Bonhoeffer (Hopkins). He thinks up Kevin McCarthy fan bank robbers, Ray (Christian Slater), and Mort (Michael Clarke Duncan), weird actors, and recent and past memories. The movie is only stuff going on inside his head. This gets a little old. The nice thing is the beginning leads to a great twist at the end. I think the twist saved a lot of the head-aches I got during the course of this movie. It's a movie that will be good if you watch it 10 minutes by 10 minutes. If you watch it at one time, it will induce major headaches. That's exactly why I watched it twice. The second time watch it at one time, it will really sink in with you. This is why I am recommending this movie with reservations. Those reservations being watch it in small doses the 1st time, and at one time the 2nd time, and be ready to switch your brain tunes every minute or so, because it will require different parts of your brain to fully understand this interesting but only mildly rewarding and satisfying film.

I simply do not like Hopkins. I think he is simply dull and lazy, conditions that talent and experience cannot overcome.We've seen him in projects where his personal inadequacies support the role ("Remains of the day"). And we've seen him deliberately pushed to the point of embarrassment and declaring that he would quit acting. Recently, it has been one tiresome disaster after another. Shucks, if Michael Caine can find himself again, why can't this guy?Well, here is his shot at doing something that matters, and I have to give him credit for knowing that he is in trouble. This is an incredibly risky endeavor. It deserves a close look. He has decided to place it somewhere among "Naked Lunch," "8 1/2" and "Singing Detective." He has — apparently without much control — turned over the editing job to a guy that is a B-lister but who has worked with the Cohens.I am convinced that a better editor could have made up for the fact that Hopkins simply does not understand those three films I note. The composition here is juvenile. I saw this with "The Tracey Fragments," which has less but competent narrative structure and more masterful cinema. I assume that Hopkins thought that frenzy would cover the emptiness.I wish he would have looked at Jodorowsky or even Hopper's inverted experiment instead. Then his confusion would be an asset, and we would be better off. Failure is honorable; cheating is not.Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.