A reclusive American composer with an online following has a tentative romance with a beautiful social worker. This offers a glimmer of hope, but his mind fractures as the voices in his head grow louder and more destructive.
Edited, like one of Jim's musical tracks, with a violent percussiveness, Snap builds to the explosive conclusion that its title promises while always treating mental illness with sympathy and sensitivity.
[Enter the Dangerous Mind] lacks the depth and resonance required to keep it from being merely unpleasant.
AV Club
February 05, 2015
A stalker thriller rife with the kind of details that the filmmakers might call "psychological" and that psychologists might call "insultingly stupid."
Its dialectic on the possibilities of change and cure, though bleakly resolved, brings method and meaning to all the madness - and while the film is full of jarring distortions and violent moodswings, it never hits a wrong note.
Despite a novel pursuit for its troubled protagonist - he's a part-time composer of electronic dance music - the filmmakers, Youssef Delara and Victor Teran, fall back on some familiar beats.
