Well, naturally Jeremy is gorgeous and everything, and does nothing less than his best acting. He never let me down yet, but this movie was strange! I think I'd need a deeper understanding of how Numerology works to get this movie. A few shots of Jeremy scribbling down numbers and adding them up ain't gonna cut it!
The moratorium law is just too vague. The town is certainly clearly afraid of the wrath of God, but if God wishes this kind of thing, why are not all towns required to do this? Not only that, but how can these people have the audacity to call themselves "Christians" when they lie constantly to Steve and are intentionally deceitful, skirting around the truth, about him "spending the night" in town?! I mean, come on, God doesn't run that town, Lucifer does!
I thought the love story in the film should have ended on the cutting room floor, but like Steve, Courtney is smart and observant, though she just should have said in the beginning "Are you nuts? Don't you dare go into this town! They're a bunch of friggin loons!" She obviously detests her own mother...makes you wonder just how exactly did Dad die of that "fever"!
Fred Durst acts as the sometime comic relief, but mostly he is just another brainwashed clone in the town, heartbroken because Courtney loves Steve, not him. There is very spare humor here, with the exception of the wacked conduct of the townfolk after the infamous hanging sequence, the even wacker behavior of a family living in the town jail, and best of all, the preg dingbat who works as the town records clerk. "Belma told me what you said (about numbers ruling the universe) and I thought it was pretty!" The look Jeremy gave her...LMAO!
Very peculiar effort, but the magnificent direction and impressive acting by a mostly Canadian troup made it enjoyable, if not entirely comprehensible, to me. I'd give it maybe 2 or 3 stars out of 4.
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