I was very engaged in the first half of this film. It was eerie, mysterious, and occasionally scary. It appealed to my sense of technology, mystery, and personal obsession. But it slowly unraveled until it reached a shrug of a non-ending. Too bad… it’s an interesting idea.

The film is about a guy in 1999 who has become obsessed with examples of broadcast signal intrusion. Someone – for some reason – has commandeered the airwaves and broadcast a creepy series of images involving an inhuman robotic woman. What does it mean? Who is doing it? And is there a third intrusion? Our hero must find out…

But it’s always kind of unclear why he’s so obsessed. I guess because he lost his wife and has connected the intrusions to missing or murdered women in the past. But the movie never really lets us in on his mental state. He’s clearly driven by his need to know… but why?

It doesn’t particularly matter early on in the film… he’s curious and he’s paranoid and his obsession and paranoia grows. But, for me to care, they eventually have to offer me something… anything… to care about. And the main character isn’t particularly interesting enough on his own… nor is his random sidekick who vanishes from the movie anyway.

By the end, I was just bored and impatient and ultimately annoyed. Maybe if you don’t need answers or the minimal hooks the film provides to keep you engaged are enough, this might work. There’s certainly an oozing paranoia and eeriness that might, all by themselves, work for you. None of it did for me. I found it ultimately impenetrable.

Score: 68