Review of Zeros and Ones (2021) by Twerqen — 22 Nov 2021

They say "don't judge book by it's cover", this is for sure one of that cases. From a description and a poster I thought this is going to be some kind of campy pseudo-militarry movie where Ethan Hawke has to save the pope, but he's not a believer, so he gotta find a faith trough his identical twin brother first.

Well, let's not judge this movie by what it's not. This is a moody "thriller" experience with cinema language out of this world. I choose to watch it one evening cause it was pretty short and I was on a time-limit, despite that it felt like 3 hours.

Most of the scenes full of nonsensical dialogue which some may find "spiritual" not me tho, for me it was that one thing that kept me laughing line after line. Plot is non-exitant, it's not like I didn't get what happened, it's just there was no point to it.

Ethan Hawke's character JJ was looking for his brother on empty streets while making some connections with locals. Guess this whole movie was going for eyes wide shut vibe, where you don't suppose to know what's happening and be in a dream-like state.

The intro and outro scenes for the movie where Ethan Hawke as himself may tip you off to the same conclusion. Overall this movie is much more compelling on paper then in reality, well, I guess you gotta try it for yourself, if you won't be put off by the weird out of place military drums, music is really fitting and if you may be on the same wavelength with the city of Vatican you may find some enjoyment in this flick.