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Visioneers (DVD)
Year: 2008
Rating: M
Director: Jared Drake
Cast: Zach Galifianakis, Judy Greer, Mνa Maestro, Missi Pyle
Release Date: September 01, 2010
Distributor: Madman
The Film: 4.0
FILMINK rates DVDs and Blu-rays out of 5A peculiarly compelling little film which admirably demonstrates restraint and well-paced comedic timing.
Surely finding its way to international release through the unpanelled marketing power of its leading man Zach Galifianakis' starring role in last year's mega-hit The Hangover, this peculiarly compelling little film is the pokerfaced end result of a fundamentally absurd central concept: in the near future, people spontaneously combust upon the realisation of their immense, unfulfillable dreams.
In the chaos that understandably ensues upon the introduction of this reality, The Jeffers Corporation (which borders on a self-help cult) grows into a world power by promising to suppress the impulse to explode. Nearly everyone, including Galifianakis' spectacularly named character George Washington Winsterhammerman, works for the company (he's a "Visioneer"), with the rest hanging on every word of its crappy television commercials. A respite in this cruel, dumb world comes in the form of George's unseen, but warm and kind co-worker, Charisma (Mia Maestro). He, however, remains petrified that his dream- and impotence-filled nights next to his numbed wife (the hilarious Judy Greer) will come to a brutal and combustive end.
Throughout Jared Drake's directorial debut, he keeps Galifianakis' bug-eyed, hairy charm in constant retreat, demonstrating an admirable restraint and sense of comedic timing that belies his limited, and very strange, experience.