The Electric Man

What The Electric Man does have is some interesting ideas and dialogue about life, how we live it and the choices we make. Or whether we even have the ability to choose or if everything is predestined and fated. I know these are heavy subjects and a lot of viewers will find themselves bored by them. But there's a vein of humour through a lot of the film that keeps it from getting too ponderous and heavy, a fairly impressive task given the material at hand. Viewers who don't mind dialogue-heavy films and serious themes should find The Electric Man an interesting watch. While it does have a point of view it never pushes it to the point of alienating those, like myself, who don't necessarily agree with it. I will say I wasn't thrilled by the way it all works out in the end, but others will probably get a chuckle from it.

It pains me to see the once great Eric Roberts in super low budget "movies" like this. I mean you watch Runaway Train and you watch this and you just ask yourself what happened? Yeah, Tom Sizemore's career has been nothing but these low budget amateurfests the last couple decades and I know Roberts hasn't been doing the best work either (he was great in The Righteous Gemstones this season) but Roberts was one a very respected actor.

The story is drawn out, long passages of boring dialog and what seems like a 20 minute movie made into a 90 minute one. It's got a great title - I bet the few people who watched it did so because of the title but the movie does not live up to the title.

It was a hard watch. I wanted to like it and I gave it every chance. But bad script and terrible acting abounds and this was awful. If you check out the cast's other credits you see lots of "short films" and "movies" like this. The entire budget was spent on Sizemore and Roberts and they probably shot their scenes in 2 days. Not sure how many "a fun ride" reviews the director can put in here (not remotely a fun ride) but if you check out the other "reviews" they're not real.

This felt like a badly scripted sci-fi b-movie about a guy who gets electrocuted and see's things as an after effect. Acting is rather wooden but was interesting in areas.

Viewers who don't mind dialogue-heavy films and serious themes should find The Electric Man an interesting watch. While it does have a point of view it never pushes it to the point of alienating those, like myself, who don't necessarily agree with it. I will say I wasn't thrilled by the way it all works out in the end, but others will probably get a chuckle from it.

Nothing that I saw made any sense, nobody had seen the script more than an hour before they started shooting, none of the 'acting' was even worthy of being called acting and nothing compelled me to watch after the first few minutes !

The camera work and lighting were acceptable and the editing didn't suck too badly but those are the only good things you can say about this garbage, don't waste your time !