Alternately interesting and unwatchable.
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02/29/08
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Slipstream (2007)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:9
Rotten:30
Average Rating:4.2/10
Consensus: Slipstream is a failed experiment; confusing instead of coherent.
Theatrical Release:Oct 26, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Anthony Hopkins channels his inner David Lynch for this MULHOLLAND DRIVE-like descent into the warped mind of a Hollywood screenwriter. Felix Bonhoeffer (Hopkins) appears to be losing his grip on... [More]
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Turturro, Christian Slater, Stella Arroyave
Director: Anthony Hopkins
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Reviews for Slipstream
Slipstream is utterly unwatchable. I hated every minute of it.
02/28/08
A Hopkins personal vanity project
11/09/07
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11/03/07
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10/29/07
A miserable mess of a stream-of-consciousness movie.
10/28/07
What would have perhaps made an excellent short subject becomes a cumbersome, confusing and deeply unsatisfying mess of a vanity project.
10/28/07
[S]o fascinating a failure that it's worth seeing...
10/26/07
If not exactly dull, Hopkins' stream-of-consciousness rant is nonetheless self-indulgent and crammed with bits of business that never add up to anything much.
10/26/07
Slipstream ultimately winds up an avant-garde film that just ain't all that avant.
10/26/07
Top CriticAt 96 minutes, this vanity/insanity project runs a bit long; five minutes would have been plenty.
10/26/07
Top CriticSlipstream is an experiment in visual stream-of-consciousness, but stream-of-consciousness fares better as a literary form than a cinematic one.
10/26/07
Top CriticAnthony Hopkins wrote and directed Slipstream. It's a free-form, surreal meditation on stuff that, evidently, popped into Hopkins' head while he was writing.
10/26/07
Has one trick up its sleeve, and once that trick is revealed, the film collapses in on itself in a manner that will irritate more viewers than it intrigues.
10/26/07
...makes you long for a pretentious, arty student short. Because those are only about eight minutes long.
10/26/07
Leave it to a 69-year-old actor to make the year's most experimental film.
10/26/07
Top CriticSlipstream is Anthony Hopkins’s third film as a director and his first as a quasi-avant-garde filmmaker working well outside the mainstream.
10/26/07
Top CriticIf consummate thespian Anthony Hopkins downplays, even dismisses, discussions about the “craft” of acting, then Slipstream, only the second film he’s directed, betrays evidence that it’s a subject to which he’s nevertheless given a lot of thought.
10/25/07
Either one of the most self-indulgent vanity projects in the history of the Hollywood star system, or a rare revealing look at a distinguished actor who usually keeps his real self out of the spotlight.
10/25/07
Slipstream is bold, experimental, off-the-wall kicky and utterly exasperating.
10/25/07
Top CriticLatest News for Slipstream
September 24, 2008:
An Audio Conversation With Anthony Hopkins: On doing Nixon, Hannibal, Hitler and Hitchcock, and what does it all mean. 
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October 16, 2007:
Stylish attempt at Hopkins visualizing post-traumatic Hollywood syndrome, but there should be a rule that movies helmed by movie stars turned directors need to come with some sort of equivalent of the Surgeon General warning label.
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October 06, 2007:
Trailer & Poster review
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