vertigo_14 Review of 25 Watts

25 Watts (2001)

What's the fascination with the slacker genre? (spoilers)

[2/10 · 5 November 2005]

I rented this movie, interested in seeing what influences this South American team of filmmakers had taken from the slacker genre which, in particular, Richard Linklater made a cult genre with the 1990 release of 'Slacker.' But just as Slacker was to me one of the most boring films on the planet, so too is 25 Watts, which offers absolutely no variation and nothing new in the genre. This is a film that, just like its American influence, is just as though you and your friends were so completely bored and walked around doing really nothing and vomiting inane conversations at length. I wouldn't think anyone would find it particularly interesting for me to do this in real life. So what's the fascination with it as it is replicated into a genre of film? If you have been impressed with these cult films, before, however, then you'll probably enjoy 25 Watts. I imagine that most of the rave reviews for this film on IMDb did come from people who can stand watching hours and hours of this kind of pseudo-intellectual crap.