Closing in on Bigfoot Movie Review: "Rubber"

Humans beware; killer tire is here. Rubber is a film directed by famed musician Quentin Dupieux (A.KA. MR. Oizo). The plot to start with is ridiculous and wacky, in a good way. The movie is about a rubber tire named Robert, going around murdering people, while having a crush on a brunette. I really liked the trailer and had been impatiently waiting for the movie to come out, but honestly, the trailer suggested that the plot was absurd, not that the whole film is completely weird and has no apparent point: it’s not “just” the tire rolling around and killing people (blowing people’s heads off), there’s a film in a film, an audience following the tire with binoculars, some of the audience get killed by the film makers, a guy in the audience becomes part of the movie… Overload! It’s quite slow- too slow and irritating at times, but I can’t deny how enjoyable some scenes are to watch. Rubber is not trying to be taken seriously, it’s a satire, and it’s working. But it’s 85 minutes- probably 60 minutes too long. I really think I would have enjoyed it more as a short film, even as a pretentious artsy film at some growing film festival rather than projected on the big screens to such a wide audience.
Basically, I still think it’s worth seeing- not necessarily because you’ll find it brilliant or love it, but because it is different, it is definitely unique and fits what an Indy film represents; something you’re not use to seeing.