One Point O. It's part sci-fi, part social commentary, part surreal fantasy but unfortunately, it's not very involving despite a compelling start.

Jeremy Sisto plays Simon, a lonely computer programmer trapped in a would he can't seem to get out of. He lives by himself in a strange apartment complex where video cameras watch his every move, and as the days go on, he becomes increasingly paranoid with those around him. This feeling is heightened when he begins finding strange packages in his apartment. Adding to the weirdness of the situation is the fact that the packages are empty. Before long Simon, slowly begins to lose touch with reality.

One Point O is clearly a case of style over substance. The look of the picture is interesting to be sure. It has elements of Cube and other such low-budget visual splendors, but unfortunately, the film never really builds. It just sort of fizzles out with ideas that seemed much more realized in movies like The Matrix and A.I. While those films were flawed themselves, they were much more fascinating.

I've seen Jeremy Sisto more effective in other movies including the wildly entertaining indie horror film May. Here, he's supposed to be sympathetic, but I didn't buy it. I found him rather dull. Deborah Unger (The Game) is
interesting but underused as Simon's inevitable love interest. Udo Kier and Lance Henriksen give the film a big shot in the arm as two of the eccentric characters that move in and out of Simon's paranoid life.

Directors Jeff Renfroe and Marteinn Thorsson do have a keen visual sense. One Point O is well shot and the locations are perfectly creepy. But for all of the things that intrigued me in this movie (what the hell are those packages and why is Simon becoming addicted to milk), I was dismayed to find that they didn't really add up to anything.

One Point O is a film in which part of the journey is far more interesting than the actual destination. I understood what I was watching, but I really didn't care. In terms of fragmented storytelling, November was far more compelling.