In the last review of a Neil Breen movie, "I Am Here.... Now," Neil played an alien assessing the humans to seem if they were worth keeping around and decided to give them one more chance. Apparently, he changed his mind. Also, my assessment that this movie would improve upon the Breen formula was wrong as "Fateful Findings" is definitely still his best film, but this movie definitely helped us to come to an understanding of why. "Fateful Findings" has the most straightforward story while still being full of weird moments and deviations from the main story. It's Breen's "Mulholland Drive." His latest film "Pass Thru" is more like his "Inland Empire": It seems to have a plot but there are so many thrown in scenes that don't show a definite order that you have to piece together the background and why on your own.Neil Breen, out of work bridge troll, plays "artificial intelligence from the future" who is currently slumming it in the desert, living in a shanty trailer and truck, and shooting up heroin when he isn't communicating with rock paintings and hanging out with a poorly CGI-ed tiger. Also in the desert are a bunch of immigrants with American accents who got mixed up in the heroin trade which is specifically given out to people like "the bankers," "the pimps," "the government officials," and "the CEO" (just the one). Neil lets one immigrant and her niece live in his dirty trailer and they all have some wacky hijinks that mostly involve throwing things. After a while, Neil decides he's going to do something about this messed up planet and decides to "disappear" anyone who has every harmed another. Ignoring the fact that this includes everyone, he first disappears the evil drug trade people and frees the American immigrants. Then he goes to a fancy party at a green screen mansion and kills everyone's vibe before blowing up the mansion in a beautifully crap CGI effect. His final act is to disappear the newscasters reporting on the disappearances and then to give an endless broadcast about what has been done, proving the Neil really should be on late night cable more than a film screen. In a really minor subplot, a bunch of kids who are into astronomy bring their scientist friend into the desert to look at some space phenomenon that clearly has to do with Neil's character but we aren't totally sure how. The film ends with Neil and the aunt walking through a sea of dead bodies which are actually just the same ten people duplicated over and over again.
This film hits a lot of the Breen standards, but it makes us a little worried that he's running out of ideas. Premise wise, this movie is quite similar to "I Am Here.... Now," but at least it still contains the expected weird dialogue, reused footage from different angles, bad acting, and nonsensical plot. In addition, this is truly some of the finest poor CGI we have ever seen.
Quotes:
Newscaster: "It's as if all the harmful people on the earth are disappearing!"
Rich Lady: "They don't need to know why or any reason."
Spoon Rating: 7.
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