The Nines

2007 "Y9u never kn9w when y9ur number is up."
6.2| 1h40m| R| en| More Info
Released: 21 January 2007 Released
Producted By: Destination Films
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.lookforthenines.com/
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A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.

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Chatverock Takes itself way too seriously
PodBill Just what I expected
Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good
AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
gazzer sutherland I give this a 6 because it is actually quite good fun and entertaining, but it is not the intellectual exercise that some here seem to think it is. The film is divided into three parts and of the three the first part is the only one that is entertaining and gives you some mystery. The way the first part ends, however, just does not make any sense. Why does the world disappear when the 'being' steps back over the line? There is just no need for such dramatics. The second part is where they use metaphors to explain what exactly is going on, not that it needs it once the world disappeared. If you have a functioning brain you could have figured it all out from there. The absurd floating numbers at the end of Part 2 and the fairly explicit explanation from Melissa totally dispel whatever mystery might remain, for everyone surely but the most hard of thinking. The third part is just totally pointless. Reynolds is supposed to be a video game designer in this part, but nothing is actually made of this which renders the whole subterfuge pointless. The actor and the writer were given some prominence but not the video game creator, which is about as close as you could get to the god process. With the 3 parts you get a comedy, followed by a documentary, followed by a piece of cod philosophy. The writer then denies that the 9s are actually gods by implying that there is a 10. The numbers are just stupid, because if they are suggesting that humans are 7s and koala bears are 8s (so what are tricking dolphins and mice then? (yes Douglas Adams did it better)) and then the very next beings up are the creators of the universe who are 9s, suggests that there is nothing in between. So you go from a telepathic teddy bear to the creators of the universe in 1 number, not very imaginative then. One final point, the character played by Melissa, who is of course a 7, knows all about the 7s and the 9s and even the putative 10. How come? Did a careless 9 tell her all this? Worth seeing, maybe. Worth any intellectual capacity, not a chance. I am, of course, an atheist so all of these god type movies, like Lucy, leave me with a hugely stretched credulity. The real universe is much more awe-inspiring than any religious type mumbo-jumbo or meandering cod-philosophy could render.
SnoopyStyle Gary (Ryan Reynolds) is a troubled actor who plays a cop on the TV show Crim9 Lab. While on crack, he crashes his car. His perky publicist Margaret (Melissa McCarthy) takes care of him while he's under house arrest. He gets involved with his Canadian next door neighbor Sarah (Hope Davis). He leaves his house and meets deaf little girl Noelle (Elle Fanning) at a bus stop but then she disappears. Strange things keep happening and there is something about him belonging to the Nines. Then Part One ends and Part Two Reality Television begins where the actors play different characters.The first part has some interesting surreal aspects. It suggests a pretty weird but compelling story. It lacks the surreal visual style to match but some of that is the everyday problem of the low budget indie. Then the second part of the movie comes and the story stumbles. The disruption is too much. The third part starts off with some interest because its title is Knowing. However the explanation is too convoluted to understand or even to follow. I question whether it's even understandable. This is John August trying to write like Charlie Kaufman. He fumbles the ball which the director John August had no chance of recovering.
BeauEvil A lot of reviews here are undeservedly harsh. "The Nines" has a fresh and unsettling strangeness that reminds me of Alfred Hitchcock's stuff in the Sixties. A lot of people just HATED Hitchcock then because he refused to follow the herd and churn out more of the same feel-good, cookie-cutter movies.Like Christopher Nolan's movies, this one requires extra effort on the viewers part. It's not a terrific movie. But, it's not terrible either. It's well worth watching if just to mull over the big "what if" idea. That's what I watch movies for, to leave with something, something I didn't have a few hours earlier.There is a clip from the claymation movie, "The Adventures of Mark Twain" that meshes very well with, "The Nines". The bit was written by the great Mark Twain. (You can find the clip online.) I wonder if the clip inspired "The Nines"!
Lily Ohdundee If the whole point of that movie was to leave you in the dark, it certainly did its job. When I saw it on netflix with the great cast that it has I was excited for it! But it just seems like this movie doesn't know what it wants to be! It starts out a drug like hallucination, then starts of in the comedy direction. It gets a little horror movie, a little scifi and none were really that enjoyable. The whole world of this movie was just confusing and rather overwhelming. Not one that brings whimsy to your mind or makes you want to jump in. It doesn't really give a point of why we should care for this protagonist at all either. This movie just did not have me interested, though it seems like it would have a better premise as a novel.