Greater Union’s expansive Cinema 5 was sold out on Friday night and, with several cheers and whoops during the rapid fire opening credits, it seemed many in the crowd were expecting big things from Gaspar Noe’s visual spectacular “Enter the Void.”
What followed was the most painful and embarrassing couple of hours I have ever spent in the cinema. I have never seen a film in which a large cinema audience actually groaned together in disbelief as we were submitted to scene after pointless scene of trite adolescent hippy vomit- “People say you fly when you die” is just one line that particularly irked me even though that was before they started having pseudo intellectual discussions about The Tibetan Book of the Dead and DMT.
I didn’t think there was such a thing as Bad Nostalgia but Enter the Void felt like being stuck on a bus with a group of 14 year olds, who a year after throwing away their dungeons and dragons sets and Michael Jordan posters, only want to talk about smoking drugs and Jim Morrison and then start showing you their magic eye books. Most of the scenes are as convincingly written and acted as a playstation video game except you never get a turn.
No Stars.
Australian Film Review 