The life of Les Franken, a young guy with a miserable life, who makes his mind to participate in an experimental drugs study, has been turned upside down, as he left his job, convinced to become a superhero.
Take[s] a page from the cartoonist Bill Watterson, who noted of the tiger protagonist in his great Calvin & Hobbes, 'The nature of [the character's] reality doesn't interest me, and each story goes out of its way to avoid resolving the issue.'
Ultimately it adds little to our understanding of the curious return of the superhero as our paradigmatic pop archetype.
I.E. Weekly
November 21, 2008
Shot for pennies -- a cash limitation that benefits the production's creativity and credibility -- this haunting film keeps shifting the ground under our feet
