Pulse

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Summary: A Parent's Worst Nightmare
Review: A bickering mother (Madeleine Stowe as Senga) and daughter (Mischa Barton as Nat) are on their way home after visiting Nat's estranged father. While at a rest stop their arguing gets so bad that Nat abandons her mother and runs off with a mysterious hitchhiker (Bijou Phillips) that they had picked up. The mystery girl persuades Nat to join her cult and Senga frantically begins to search for her daughter. Eventually, they both learn that this cult has sinister intentions.
Madeleine Stowe plays Senga with surprisingly little emotion while Barton's character comes off as a real brat. They never get along and even when Senga attempts to rescue Nat they're still going at it. The movie gets cliche in the final half hour as Senga becomes a one woman army battling the evil cultists. However, the movie does build some good suspense through Senga's fear and suspicions of people who dwell during the nocturnal hours. There's also a good song called "F.E.A.R" that plays over the end credits.

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Summary: Confusing
Review: I must admit I was drawn in by this movie. However,it slowly became confusing and I nearly decided the whole movie was a delusion surrounding a woman's near abortion and people's judgement of her. Or was it her own judgement? Was the movie itself making a statement about abortion? I finished the movie feeling like I'd wasted ninety minutes of my time but considering I'm still thinking about it, it must have had an impact. Not enough to ever watch again however.

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Summary: 2 stars for the Orbital score & some nice visuals
Review: I saw this on cable but it was called Octane not Pulse. I guess they changed the name for the USA release. Overall this movie is a mess. The story is incomprehensible, but it has to do with a highway cult that kills people & drinks their blood, but none of this is ever explained, its just an excuse to have flashy music video cinematography & a cool techno soundtrack by Orbital. This is a nice little rental or catch on cable if you have nothing to do on a rainy day but definitely not worth buying.

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Summary: What the ?
Review: I went into this movie hoping for a trippy psychological thriller. Instead I got confused and bored, which was very disappointing because I liked the actors in the movie. The story is unclear and Jonathan Rhys Meyers is wasted! They never fully explain much of anything, so I recommend you watch paint dry instead.

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Summary: If only...
Review: If only David Lynch or Christopher Nolan had gotten their hands on this scenario,they would probably have made a ***** movie out of this.Unfortunately , as it is , the movie has an unfinished and incomplete character and puts solid acting performances by Mischa Barton and especially Madeleine Stowe to waste.Hurried editing does not arrange the overall frustrating picture.
Try again!

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Summary: Forgive me, Father
Review: Sorry, but this movie stinks! The mother and daughter were a believable duo, but the plot line sucked. I just did not understand what the cult was about, and how the "Father" knew that the mother had wanted to abort her daughter.

While the movie started off well, somewhere close to the end, the plot stumbled and never recovered from its descent.

Too weird for me!

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Summary: A Bizarre Movie About a Killer Highway Cult.
Review: _Pulse_ is a bizarre movie about a mother and daughter travelling along a highway late at night on their way home from visiting the father. The movie then plunges into total weirdness as we witness the actions of a bizarre cult as they disguise themselves as ambulance medics and attempt to rescue a man trapped in his car after a crash. Apparently this cult seeks bigger things. After stopping at a diner because the mother is beginning to become sleepy, the daughter picks up a hitchhiker, who tells a tale of her travels to India to the daughter and mother. Then, things get weird as the hitchhiker asks to be let off at the nearest rest area and immediately disappears leaving her CD featuring Indian chanting. Later on they stop again and this time they have a spat over concert tickets that the father has given to the daughter in the movie. This time the cult ends up finding the daughter and kidnapping her. The rest of the movie is spent as the mother tries to regain her daughter from their evil grasp. However, towards the end of the movie it begins to make no sense again . . . and the ending completely remains unfulfilling. The movie is suspenseful nonetheless and will provide a night's worth of entertainment as one faces the horrific tragedy of a killer highway cult. However, what exactly this means we may never know, because the movie has failed to wrap up the ending in an understandable manner. I still enjoyed it however and thought the idea was strange which is why I am giving it 5 stars.