ridiculous rating

Let's be realistic.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

After recently watching The Pianist, I next watched Rubber. One can argue what a great film The Pianist may be, but to argue that Rubber is something other than garbage is a total waste of time.

Getting past the possessed auto tire issue, an interesting plot with cheesy acting. It could have been much better with more defined character development and stronger story line.

Robert was fantastic, the nuance, the soundtrack, the director went the extra mile and got a far from flat performance finding inner depths.You could get stretch this review with a lot of puns - not necessarily bad, even the poster can't resist. If you can't handle that or you can't think about the media you consume lightly, sideways, then this is not for you.If you did enjoy it then seek out Man Bites Dog or anything in the 50p section of the video shop on Fratton Road, Portsmouth in 1992 probably with Rutger Hauer.( Clearly international time travel may be required; if you've prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse then this really is your next area requiring planning).

RUBBER is a film that wants to be hip and cool so badly that it physically hurts. It's a high concept - so high it belongs in outer space - comedy horror about a sentient tyre that goes around killing people and things. That's it. There's no attempt to rationalise or explain the events on screen, it's just one death after another, with lots of wraparound stuff to pad out the running time.This wraparound stuff goes for self-referencing in a big, post-modern way. Classic films are discussed and a group of audience members seem to be watching the film in the same way that the viewer at home is. Unfortunately, to enjoy this film you seem to need to be to find the events taking place on screen funny, but I never did. Watching animals - and later people - getting blown up by a psychic tyre didn't make me laugh.What RUBBER offers is cheap gore and cod, pseudo-intellectual dialogue, without any decent acting. I suppose the desert setting recalls favourably the likes of TREMORS and the special effects used to animate the tyre aren't bad, but otherwise this is a dog's dinner of a film.