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Listening
For years, we have tried to harness the power of the human mind... and failed. Now, one breakthrough will change everything. Beyond technology. Beyond humanity. Beyond control. This is a psychological thriller about penniless grad students who invent mind-reading technology that destroys their lives.
24 October 1960, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
29 November 1983, Santa Cruz, California, USA
14 June 1951, USA
3 June 1983, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA
October 29, 2015
This is where Listening really falls apart - it doesn't seem to know what it wants to be.September 11, 2015
... Listening displays courage: in embracing bold stylization and colors in an age of washed-out, gritty sci-fi; in not retreating from the more horrific aspects of the involved science...September 10, 2015
It looks and feels like a particularly well made student film (so many colored filters), but the subject matter is rather more interesting and weirdly plausible than the recent spate of big-budget AI films.September 09, 2015
This is a cerebral tale that has a few moments of true and unique invention, yet it can't quite live up to it's promise.September 08, 2015
Director/screenwriter Khalil Sullins makes an auspicious feature debut with his audacious sci-fi thriller that's as engrossing as it is thought-provoking.September 10, 2015
Begins as a fitfully intriguing character study before flying off the rails as a nightmarish vision of government encroachment on free thought.September 08, 2015
Too bad Sullins doesn't have a movie's worth of story out of this premise. Rather than pioneering into the frontiers of the mind, Listening slogs through the most well-traveled pits of screenwriting.September 09, 2015
Sullins' movie has its heart and brain in the right place, but its guts are a mess.September 15, 2015
Naive, hamfisted, and amateurish indie sci-fi... but as hilarious as the clumsy, clichéd execution is, it still isn't even worth it for the laughs.September 10, 2015
To call it amateurish would be kind.September 10, 2015
Meditation as a countermeasure against a sinister mind-control conspiracy is a novel idea; too bad it's wedged into a rickety framework of numbingly conventional dramatic complications, half-hearted eroticism, and pervasive humorlessness.