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A killer rubber tyre? You read that right. And with a big wink to B movies of yesterday, director Quentin Dupieux’s Rubber is a solid, entertaining and downright bizarre piece of cinema.
Rubber is a horror comedy at heart, and that’s hardly surprising when you consider what the plot actually is. For the film centres on the aforementioned rubber tyre, which just happens to possess psychic powers. It’s not long, then, before said tyre goes off on a killing spree. And when the film motors up properly, it really does deliver on the oddball concept.
It takes too long to get there, though. What should be a fairly straightforward run for the movie takes some bumpy road thanks to some of the decisions that Dupieux makes. As such, Rubber isn’t full-on committed to its concept, and it’s when it’s dithering that it’s set to test the patience of its audience.
When it does go full-on, though, it’s great fun. Rubber really does explode into life as it closes in on its finale, and there’s consequently more right with the film than wrong. It’s clearly the concept alone that’s the chief selling point of the movie, yet there is more to it than that. A little more conviction on the part of its director, though, and it could have been better still. --Jon Foster
Synopsis
Deep within the desolate landscape of the Californian desert a merciless killer roams the land looking for victims. With his terrifying psychic abilities he leaves a blood soaked trail of chaos and death. No one is safe from the destructive, horrifying powers that he possesses as he continues on his brain-splattering odyssey of exploding heads and dismembered body parts. However, this is no ordinary psychopath. His name is Robert and he just so happens to be a rubber tyre.
Very, very weird and extremely violent, Rubber truly is like no other film you’ve ever seen. When you’re not crying with laughter you’ll be screaming in horror. A thrilling, hilarious and beyond bizarre horror that’s guaranteed to stop you in your tracks.
Special Features include:
Very, very weird and extremely violent, Rubber truly is like no other film you’ve ever seen. When you’re not crying with laughter you’ll be screaming in horror. A thrilling, hilarious and beyond bizarre horror that’s guaranteed to stop you in your tracks.
Special Features include:
- Interview with Quentin Dupieux
- Interview with Stephen Spinella
- Interview with Jack Plotnick
- Interview with Roxane Mesquida
- First camera tests
- Trailer
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Ok, a film about a killer tyre...let's see what we've got here....
Well, there's some chairs spread out on a desert road and a guy with loads of binoculars, then a car breaks all the chairs.
Why?
No reason.
As the opening monologue explains, this film is all about no reason.
So, the binoculars get handed to some spectators and the story begins.
Things start very well, with Robert (the tyre) awakening and stumbling about like a new born and then just revelling in being alive. It also discovers it has some other unique abilities.
Psychokinetic powers.
As Robert rolls around running things over and blowing things up, he spots a young lady driving through the desert and sets off in pursuit.
The problem for me with this film is that although it is very well shot, it spends too much time in the sequences where it steps out of the film.
It will cut to the spectators as they comment and question on what's occuring and initially it works well.
But, after a while these moments just start to drag on.
A good example is a sequence were one of the actors is trying to explain to everybody else that what's happening isn't real and they are just characters in a story.
For me the scene just went on for too long and took me a bit too much out of events.
Another example of this is when one of the spectators arrives on the scene to complain about the story being a bit slow and in need of speeding up.
The scenes with Robert are really good and the whole film is very well shot but for me it was just trying to be a bit too clever for its own good.
I understand what the film was trying to achieve but it didn't quite work.
As I said earlier, there's a scene with a spectator stopping the film to explain what's wrong with a particular sequence, but even as he's suggesting what they can do to make the scene better, he somehow missed the most obvious thing, which for me was 'just detonate the explosives.'
And, surely it's not a good thing if I am sharing his sentiments, as the film is dragging?
As the whole film is about no reason you have to ask yourself if there's a reason for spending your money on it. I would wait until the price drops to below £5 before taking a shot on this, or better yet rent it out first as it's not going to be everyones cup of tea and I think it'll turn out to be a real mixed opinion movie with some people either praising its genius or outright hating it.
Well, there's some chairs spread out on a desert road and a guy with loads of binoculars, then a car breaks all the chairs.
Why?
No reason.
As the opening monologue explains, this film is all about no reason.
So, the binoculars get handed to some spectators and the story begins.
Things start very well, with Robert (the tyre) awakening and stumbling about like a new born and then just revelling in being alive. It also discovers it has some other unique abilities.
Psychokinetic powers.
As Robert rolls around running things over and blowing things up, he spots a young lady driving through the desert and sets off in pursuit.
The problem for me with this film is that although it is very well shot, it spends too much time in the sequences where it steps out of the film.
It will cut to the spectators as they comment and question on what's occuring and initially it works well.
But, after a while these moments just start to drag on.
A good example is a sequence were one of the actors is trying to explain to everybody else that what's happening isn't real and they are just characters in a story.
For me the scene just went on for too long and took me a bit too much out of events.
Another example of this is when one of the spectators arrives on the scene to complain about the story being a bit slow and in need of speeding up.
The scenes with Robert are really good and the whole film is very well shot but for me it was just trying to be a bit too clever for its own good.
I understand what the film was trying to achieve but it didn't quite work.
As I said earlier, there's a scene with a spectator stopping the film to explain what's wrong with a particular sequence, but even as he's suggesting what they can do to make the scene better, he somehow missed the most obvious thing, which for me was 'just detonate the explosives.'
And, surely it's not a good thing if I am sharing his sentiments, as the film is dragging?
As the whole film is about no reason you have to ask yourself if there's a reason for spending your money on it. I would wait until the price drops to below £5 before taking a shot on this, or better yet rent it out first as it's not going to be everyones cup of tea and I think it'll turn out to be a real mixed opinion movie with some people either praising its genius or outright hating it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Let's get one thing straight- this is not a superb film. But it will be a classic. Every old B-movie cliche is rewritten. It's a modern day Roger Corman. Watch it and drag your chin from the floor.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Imagine if you will a discarded car tyre lying in a desert which suddenly and inexplicably becomes sentient and homicidal.
And there you have a part of the plot of this bizarrely enjoyable and cinematic (yet highly unreal) gore-fest.
Also taking on board that this is a film about making a film where some people are shot and don't die but others (the observing crowd) are poisoned whilst living alfresco in the desert by eating food delivered daily by a nerd on a push-bike and you're still only part way into this film.
Personally I loved it but can quite see how many people would feel that they'd wasted a couple of hours of their life watching it.
This is no deeply meaningful film full of symbolism and hidden depths it is simply an enjoyable (to my mind at least) jaunt through a few different facets of the blood spattered, psychopathic killer, genre.
As I say I truly enjoyed it but then again I've never been quite right in the head anyway - or so I've been told.
And there you have a part of the plot of this bizarrely enjoyable and cinematic (yet highly unreal) gore-fest.
Also taking on board that this is a film about making a film where some people are shot and don't die but others (the observing crowd) are poisoned whilst living alfresco in the desert by eating food delivered daily by a nerd on a push-bike and you're still only part way into this film.
Personally I loved it but can quite see how many people would feel that they'd wasted a couple of hours of their life watching it.
This is no deeply meaningful film full of symbolism and hidden depths it is simply an enjoyable (to my mind at least) jaunt through a few different facets of the blood spattered, psychopathic killer, genre.
As I say I truly enjoyed it but then again I've never been quite right in the head anyway - or so I've been told.
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Absurd
Completely absurd, but the film keeps reminding you of this and lets you know exactly where you stand throughout. Read more
Published 11 days ago by James
"..CRAZY BUT BRILLIANT.."
This is a very bizarre movie with a very unusual idea for a plot but its rather excellent! The idea of a killer tyre is pretty unbelievable by a mile but works really well with a... Read more
Published 1 month ago by S. Drury
Needed a little more TLC.
I have mixed feelings about this film.
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Original, also had a few good scenes here... Read more
The easiest way to describe this would be by the following:
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Original, also had a few good scenes here... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Leon
Yawn
Watched the first 20 minutes of the film which consisted of some bloke talking to a group of people then someone (hidden) rolling a tyre around for 15 minutes, to try and make it... Read more
Published 1 month ago by E. K. Moat
RUBB-ish
There's not much to say about this one to be honest. If you like to watch a remote controlled tyre rolling down the road for over an hour and on occasion making various peoples... Read more
Published 2 months ago by D. Krol
Quirky
This wasn't at all what I expected from the blurb - in fact the tyre itself is reasonably incidental, this is in fact an exploration of film and meta-text; the exploding heads and... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Scaroth, Last of the Jagaroth
Not even about a killer tyre
I bought this film thinking "Excellent, cheese b movie about a killer tyre, what's not to like?". I was fully expecing it to be a cheesy, ott film along the lines of Crank. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Alex Webb
Utter GARBAGE!!!
Now I was really looking forward to this film, and the first 5 minutes were great!! Killer Car Tyre!! So daft it's great. then.... it just got worse. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Grumzy
Tongue-in-cheek, quirky and clever - I really enjoyed it.
"Rubber is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire that has been abandoned in the desert and then suddenly and inexplicably comes to life. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Louise Roberts
Almost factual .
Great little protest movie against some of the dross that Hollywood is happy to ladle out , & , to our shame , lie back & accept . Read more
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