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...Primer is a film that proves a Sundance Grand Jury Prize is not indicative of a great film. Robert Redford may be one of the greatest actors of our time, but the Sundance Kid should stay away from recommending movies to an independent audience...
...Primer, the directorial debut of Shane Carruth, lacks any narrative thread, but essentially is a story about four broke, thirtysomething engineers who create a mysterious box in their garage that defies scientific rationality and seems to give them inexplicable control over life...
Despite the initial outpouring of praise for this admittedly unique film, the average NOVA documentary from a high school physics class displays more character development. Primer may excite the lonely guys at MIT, but the film should reach no theatres beyond those at Kendall Square. In his attempt to make science sexy, Carruth just gives the audience a headache and turns them...
...that sci-fi movies dealing with the tenuous nature of the time-continuum need Christopher Lloyd. In addition to the Grand Prize, Robert Redford’s sad attempt at a cinema chateau also awarded the film a prize for the advancement of science and technology in film. If Primer deserves any prize, it is a Razzie award for the most nauseating and incomprehensible science fiction film ever created...