Beyond the Black Rainbow
Director: Panos Cosmatos
Year Released: 2010
Rating: 2.0
Amalgamation of countless sci-fi and movies from the 70's and 80's Cosmatos saw as a child ends up being ... well, an amalgamation of influences: this is glorified visual homage in full. The "plot," what there is of it, has a telepathic young woman trying to escape from an elaborate building run by a proto-human named Barry (Michael Rogers). The shots are meticulously lit and framed, and there's a black and white sequence part way through that is simply stunning, but with the absence of a detailed narrative with characters that matter, it's like watching a playful recreation of other movies instead of a movie in its own right. Tarantino does homage as well as anybody, but that's because he takes the ideas of others and makes them his own, in his own unique universe: Cosmatos needs to work on that.
