The Beta Test Reviews
A idéia central é interessante, já a construção dos personagens e atuações são bem farsescas e rasas. Não dá para torcer para o personagem principal pois não existe carisma. A noiva é mais interessante e enigmática com poucas falas, do que ele. Acredito que o roteiro se perdeu da metade para o fim, principalmente por não deixar totalmente claro sua conclusão.
Dumbest movie with atrocious main character.
Maybe it doesn't really come together at the end but that doesn't hurt the overall effectiveness of the commentary. Cummings remains a truly original talent, especially as a performer, and his character's desperate masculine posturing (which manifests itself in pathetic outbursts and flop sweat) really is just something to behold.
It's good — I'd recommend.It's good — I'd recommend
The genre-bending-&-blending "Beta Test" is an instant, cinematic masterpiece. This is a low-budget, independent movie, but it looks and feels like a very-polished and put-together movie. It's definitely worth the $6.99 rental fee on Amazon Prime.
Beta Test has a unique approach towards modern society's self confining futile grandeurs . An all figured out system humiliatingly swallowed by an uncalculated evil algorithm. One metaphorical illness representing the process of numbing desires of mind. Performance is bit too intense but the story is pervasively captivating in a way making the whole experience a uniquely and an intriguing one.
Jim Cummings channels his inner Nic Cage (your milage may vary) in this collaboration with co-star PJ McCabe in a film that has heart, but lacks a vision. The individual parts don't exactly mesh particularly crisply. The movie either needs to go full force into depravity or leave out the sex altogether. The mystery aspect, is played up by Cummings, but the resolve happens so abruptly it makes no sense. I'm liking this less and less, the more I think about it. Final Score: 5/10
Great inside Hollywood Agencies and the fakes that work for them. Love the ending and the real truth about how false the industry money makers really are. Oh yeah, the Beta Test is up and running NOW.. Watch out social media!
Another solid film from independent film advocate Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe. The visuals are stunning. The story is interesting. And the performances are solid. It's a sexy thriller I'd recommend to almost anybody.
Concept was intriguing but overall the comedy and movie flow didn't quite do it for me. Some lines were funny, however a lot of the script was over-the-top and downright strange. Some scenes were really interesting, some were cringe and unnecessary. It's a film that throws a lot at the wall, and lands the odd one.
Absolutely horrendous performances cancel out any little clever bits here.
Was this a vanity project or what? As an actor, Jim Cummings would make a good ditch digger. His hammy poor-man's Jim Carry routine is beyond irritating. The movie is unfocused, its tone uneven and nonsensical. The characters were all a bunch of twitchy, empty sock puppets so it was impossible to connect with them---None of the characters were remotely human. So it failed as a satire because there was no *there* there, no universality to recognize, to laugh at. The whole thing felt like a tedious, one-note joke about the neurosis of Hollywood and "toxic masculinity". Thing is, this movie is the very thing it mocks. Especially problematic was the whole opening scene in which a young woman in a sexy evening gown (why? no reason. Just dinner at home with the hubby) is violently, gruesomely stabbed to deal as the camera ogles her curves. Then we suddenly switch to hammy, campy Cummings. What crap. I want my 5 bucks back.
Maybe it doesn't really come together at the end but that doesn't hurt the overall effectiveness of the commentary. Cummings remains a truly original talent, especially as a performer, and his character's desperate masculine posturing (which manifests itself in pathetic outbursts and flop sweat) really is just something to behold.
He's a high strung Hollywood agent that gets a letter in the mail to meet up for a secret tryst in a hotel. Falling for it causes his brain to fracture even more, and he's frantic in trying to find who is behind it all.
This film got better and better as scenes became more and more uncovertebral to watch. A super dark comedy that what would have been a cheap 50 shades reimaging into something that can be not only compelling and thought provoking as well. Jim cummings does a great job with 3 films in a row that are all different and great in there way
This satire never really felt like it locked on or found its target. Cummings is so charismatic and entertaining playing a character that feels like a cross between Patrick Bateman (minus the murders) and The Cable Guy (Jim Carrey, not Larry), that it was easy to walk away entertained even if the enticingly mysterious narrative failed to completely deliver at times. He definitely killed that monologue in the garage too. 6.5/10 *My brother kept recommending Thunder Road to me over the last couple years and of course now that I finally am really interested in watching it, I don't see it streaming anywhere.
Jim Cummings e superb
3.3. Jim Cummings always plays such a great nutcase I love it
Absolutely wild ride through the mind of a very special director duo! The coreography between camera, music and actors is stunning and extremely well thought-out.
Jim Cummings is a major talent. Not only is he insanely funny, but his tonal shifts are already legendary, and they work so well you're not even sure that when you just laughed, it wasn't meant to be a laugh but real pathos, or something else. It's bizarre. Tongue is firmly planted in cheek, but is it? It is the work of a magician. I have never seen anything like it. He is my favorite writer/director/actor right now. Hands down. He is a very rare artist.