Rubber

Quentin Dupieux's absurdist comedy Rubber follows the murderous exploits of a psychokinetic car tire. Rubber begins with a police officer telling a group of people in the desert that in every movie there is something that happens for no reason. One of his many examples being, “In the Steven Spielberg movie E.T., why is the alien brown? No Reason.” The people then watch the events of Rubber through binoculars as the tire rolls through the California desert destroying everything in its path and as it begins stalking a young woman (Roxane Mesquida).

Rubber is a film that asks you to entirely suspend your disbelief. And once you do that it's pretty fun. It's a campy thriller complete with gore and nudity and if that's something you're in to then you'll probably appreciate it. Overall it has the feel of a movie made by someone just having fun with a video camera, and I think that's precisely what it is. It has some artful desert images and a lot of interesting cinematography. And my only problem was the scenes of the tire just rolling along sometimes went on a little too long, but it was never a huge issue.

Rubber would be great for a casual movie night. It's light and silly and nothing in it makes sense so you won't miss anything if people are talking. I recommend taking a drink every time something happens for “no reason.”

Seven out of Ten.