The Speed of Thought Movie 2011 Review
Initially when I first encountered The Speed of Thought (2011) I thought it’s
going to be a cheaper replicon of X-Men or some kind of a Xavier back story
copy. I saw that Nick Stahl was playing the lead in The Speed of Thought. To
tell you the truth I never heard or cared much for the guy until and after I
saw him in Terminator 3 rise of the machines. So I saw a familiar face, got the
DVD and decided to check it out, how bad it can be? After watching the movie
and now writing this The Speed of Thought review I can state it was bad. How bad you ask? Keep reading and you will find out.
One of the major problems (there were many) that bothered me
personally was nobody said what horrible jobs the Scopers did. The only thing I
saw on the screen was, Joshua (Nick Stahl) cheating some dude in cards repeatedly.
What makes me ask the question why that dude treated Joshua as a friend and
kept on playing with him? And if we are on that subject why Anna didn’t worn
her father that he was being played by the NSA. She hated her old man so much
that she didn’t want to warn him. They didn't imply that during the movie. I guess they just wanted Joshua and Anna to hook up, no matter that the
entire series of events surrounded them was logically incompatible.
And why does everybody in Uruguay eat in the same restaurant all
the time. Those NSA agents really suck at their job. Even a blind man can
see that something was not really going right with Joshua and Anna (restaurant
meetings, New York).
I really don't get why they had to mention that Joshua had Jewish
origins, just to imply that all Russian Jews that live in New York have ties to
the organized crime. No doubt I didnt had to see that scene.
The Speed of Thought is one of the slow paced movies I had ever
seen, when I say slow paced in The Speed of Thought case it was a turtle slow
motion pace. It had the worst supporting cast I had seen (mostly Kira but she
wasn't alone) in a while now. The plot could not have been that bad, The X-Men
movies made a fortune with the same idea but the execution of The Speed of
Thought was one of the poorest I had ever seen. The scenes where the Scopers
entering other people’s minds where visually good but the never ending silence repulsed me and completely ruined the scenes for me, because there were so many scenes like that it got on my
nerves constantly. The final confrontation between Joshua and Sandy could be
seen a mile away. The moment I saw Sandy I knew he was the bad guy, what made
the entire build up from the beginning to the end meaningless.
2013 just started and The Speed of Thought from 2011 is the worst movie I
saw this year (it will be hard to beat). I never thought that when initially I
start with very low expectations from a movie I can be so unpleasantly surprised and lower the bar beneath the level I
expected it to be prior watching the movie.
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