God and Numbers and Crazy People who Happen to Like God and Numbers and Other Crazy People

The Believers.

Well. I don't know what to say. This movie kind of pissed me off but didn't at the same time. You know like when you get that itch on your back and you scratch it and it feels nice so you keep doing it and then you end up with a gash on your shoulder from scratching too much so you stop because the blood starts coming out? That's this movie.

The notion behind the movie is great, the gesture itself just sucks. Like, really sucks, I'm not even kidding you. In fact, I wish I were kidding you.

The plot is good. It has a turn or two near the end but that's just checking to see if you've either A) walked out of the theatre or B) fallen asleep.

Basically, there is a group of people called the Quanta group or something I guess and they all look weird. They are scientists, which explains the weirdness, and they all love math. They have some equation they follow that reveals everything to them.

No kidding. Everything. They plan on leaving the planet just before it dies and they hold the key to passing into another realm and leading mankind because mankind is too dumb to listen.

Anyway, they all believe this crap and there are a few good lines murmured by bad actors. Best line of the whole movie runs a little something like this: Numbers don't lie, people do.

Well, I'll be, thanks Sherlock, or Watson, I had no idea. I could get into the debate about numbers doing exactly what we tell them to time and again, but I won't. That goes against God. Who, according to this script, is numbers. One and the same.

Whatever happened to the word? Whatever. The writer or writers or monkeys getting drunk and head butting typewriters must have walked away from the script and left an angry teenage angster (I said it, angst-ridden teenagers, feel free to use it anytime) to control the story. Why? Because all those bad actors suddenly start saying 'Fuck' about as often as they inhale.

So, the idea for the story is intriguing and the manifestation of this idea is rancid. Not one good actor in the whole lot. Its like a college theatre production. At least I can walk away with a good idea to kick around, whatever that's worth.

Go see it if you want but don't blame me when you realize it sucks.