Diabolically tongue-in-cheek send up of movies and movie-watchers that tells you it's not going to contain any reason and delivers on its promise. The main plot seems a little goofy: a tire in the desert rolls around killing things with its psychokinetic powers. What was clever was that we are actually the viewers of both the film and a set of viewers of the film (except they stood in the desert with pairs of binoculars). Rubber is a film about movies. Cliches are played with. The viewers are both viewers and participants in the film. Some of the main characters realize they are acting. In fact, this self-referentiality reminded me very much of the Theatre of the Absurd. Maybe a bit pretentious, Rubber took a pretty big risk by throwing itself so far out there. Overall, an intelligent and delightful film.
8/10
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