Rubber

Careful Where You Tread

Most movies have a understandable story line. Rubber is not one of those movies.

This French film follows the tale of 'Robert,' a killer tire that blows things up using its psychokinetic powers. Are you confused yet? If you weren't, I would be slightly worried. The entire premise of Rubber is that things don't have to make sense to be entertaining.

Not only does the main story line not make sense, but neither does the side story. At the beginning of the movie, a group of people get off of a bus in the middle of the desert. While this isn't significant on its own, they are all given a pair of binoculars to watch the events of Robert's tale unfold.

They (the filmmakers) randomly cut back to this group throughout the film to get the 'audience's' reaction to the story. I'm not even sure if the word story is the right word for it. Regardless of how you define it, both halves of this flick have plenty of twists and turns to keep you intrigued to the ending.

Now, with this being about a tire that traverses the desert on its own, you would expect there to be a fair amount of special effects. That may or may not be the case with this film. The reason I say that is because you truly can not tell how the tire gets its propulsion. It literally looks like it is propelling itself across the ground.

Rubber gets a pretty good 8.5 star rating

I decided on giving this French masterpiece an 8.5/10 rating. While it didn't do very good in the box office (it only made 1/5 of its $500,000 budget), Rubber is one of those rare "must-see" films. I say this because even though it makes ABSOLUTELY no sense at all, it really makes the best of it, with some amazing special effects, might I add. It truly is a homage to nonsense. You can check this film out for yourself either on Netflix or Amazon Instant Video (link below).

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