It seems that a small wooden box on the doorstep of a couple can change course. Now, the couple know that opening it will give them a million dollars but it is tied to someone's path and killed it.
While it's true that the film's sci-fi antics are far from watertight in the logic department, there's enough eccentricity and ambition at play to charm and bemuse in equal measure.
Is it an odd film? Certainly. Will it creep you out more than it engages you? Probably. Should we be rewarding folks who are willing to step out of bounds and make us think? Definitely.
I think Kelly is a very inventive writer and I think he is his own worst enemy behind the camera.
TheShiznit.co.uk
September 29, 2012
Weird for the sake of weird? Definitely. A work of art? Maybe. Genius? Hardly. But be sure of one thing: this is most certainly a box that's worth peeking into.
What they end up deciding sets in slothlike motion a convoluted string of ludicrous events that will take writer-director Richard Kelly years to live down.
