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I just found out about this movie and it has a 0% Rotten Tomatoes score and 4.6/10 on imdb. I haven't seen it yet so I personally can't say how bad it is. It stars Uma Thurman, Sofia Vergara, Maggie Q, Alice Eve, Tim Roth, Parker Posey, Crispin Glover, Stephen Fry and Ashley Williams. That seems like a lot of stars for something rated so low. Anyone see this yet?

The movie starts with a premise of would you press a button if doing so gave you one million dollars but someone you don't know would die. Hey, that sounds cool and apparently was an episode of the Twilight Zone, which this is based on. But the need to explain how this all works and why they're doing it starts to involve aliens and mind control and the movie goes off the rails. Bonus for horrible CGI on Frank Langella's face that looks like a high school project instead of Hollywood. Also a bit of a misogynistic undertone as the people who push the buttons in the movie are the wives.

I don't know how this movie hasn't been covered yet. It was on HBO the other day so I recorded it because I couldn't remember if it was good or not. It. Is. Not. It involved Gina Davis walking around with a treasure map that's on her father's scalp stuffed in her pants. So when her father died she scalped him for the treasure map he had tattooed there and is just pulling it out the entire movie. Plus the movie sets up awful sex jokes. She says to Matthew Modine "Let me show you something" and then starts digging around for her dad-scalp map in her pants and he replies "Thanks but I've seen one before". Also to try to stop them from escaping a city in a carriage a ship starts firing on the town with its cannons and destroys several buildings in the town but doesn't hit them in the carriage. Gina Davis jumps off the carriage onto a roof and runs through a room full of people above faster than the carriage that's being drawn by horses running at full speed below her.