Listening
Listening
NR | 11 September 2015 (USA)
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For years, we have tried to harness the power of the human mind… and failed. Now, one breakthrough will change everything. Beyond technology. Beyond humanity. Beyond control. David, Ryan, and Jordan hope the telepathy invention will solve all their problems, but the bleeding-edge technology opens a Pandora’s box of new dangers, as the team discovers that when they open their minds, there is nowhere to hide their thoughts.

Reviews
Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable
Borgarkeri A bit overrated, but still an amazing film
Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
contact-86263 They should have explored the free-will aspect a little more, but overall I liked it.
jm_5 The sound and photography of this film detracted terribly from what is a great story. The acting and dialogue could be better too. The photography in general was too inconsistent. The color balance in particular was off-putting. The sunset yellow hue at times, reinforced by the low angled shadows of near dawn and dusk were effective. The awful yellow-green hue of their garage lab suffered the faults of film without a balancing filter, or color grading, with the annoying look of low light digital video. It is unclear how this was shot, but such a color temperature must be deliberate, in which case its terrible, or amateurishly unaddressed, which is unforgivable. The sound was equally uneven. However, I dare say the story was engaging and original. This film does not deserve the 1s and 10s it has gotten in other reviews. It is a solid 6 out of 10, as the majority of the reviews rate it. I rated it an extra star down for the technical deficiencies.
captainblarg I would say this movie sits somewhere between 6 and 7 - it's a good job of entertainment, but a finicky viewer will find much to object to. I had to brace myself for the down-on-their-luck scenes, but those were balanced with the "meat" part of the tale well enough, for me. What was lackluster was their treatment of the ethical side of this matter, so look elsewhere if that's what interests you most.I couldn't decide whether or not the movie was an attack on Buddhism. I felt an ironic tone to that entire side of the film, and that the credulous viewer is being taken on a not-so-genuine carnival ride, although if deliberate it's done in a subtle enough fashion to be innocuous. It's the filmmaker's business if he wanted to portray that kind of view. Although maybe they were just going with the whole mystique of eastern religion as a contrast to a decidedly western perspective, which could add to the effect of making the plot feel more wholly fleshed out.
Larry Silverstein Looks like I'm in the minority here, but I couldn't find much to like in this sci-fi flick that just tore credibility into shreds. Even below B- movie quality, in my opinion, the film focuses on 3 Caltech students who, through their experiments, find a way of injecting carbon nanotubes into the human body and brain, which allows one-way telepathic communication between two people, enabling one person to read the others thoughts.Of course, a large government agency, namely the CIA, knows all about their experiments and wants to use them for their own nefarious purposes. There are some twists in the movie which are decent, but I couldn't find much else to like here.All in all, this film,written and directed by first time filmmaker Khalil Sullins, may have some interesting concepts, but, for me, they were drowned out by the wooden dialogue and acting plus lots of non- believable plot elements.