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Dark Matter
Directed by Shi-Zheng Chen based on actual events. Dark Matter revolves around a Chinese university student responds violently when his chances for a Nobel Prize are dashed by school politics.
11 April 1950, Santa Monica, California, USA
5 April 1982, Pocatello, Idaho, USA
14 June 1944, Buffalo, New York, USA
13 April 1952, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
4 May 1965, Rockford, Illinois, USA
23 April 1946, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
April 18, 2008
There is no need for a scene in which your hero loses touch with reality via cockeyed camera trickery and thumping techno music.
April 16, 2008
Liu Ye is too inexpressive for his role's demands, and the movie doesn't build to his downfall: It just zaps itself there.
August 08, 2009
Begins with a shot of Meryl Streep practicing tai chi, and therein lies a precise encapsulation of the film's attitude toward the intersection of Eastern and Western cultures
July 05, 2011
Xing is surprised to discover Western academics are just as ruthless as communist apparatchiks and, ill equipped emotionally to handle humiliation, he takes his guns to town.
May 02, 2008
There is nothing wrong with taking inspiration from actual events, but it's a tricky business, and Dark Matter does no one right by sticking to the shocking conclusion.
March 25, 2009
Buttressed by outstanding, unpredictable performances and a beguiling mood of raw nerve collegiate ambition, Matter develops erratically but intelligently.
April 11, 2008
There's little in Billy Shebar's script, the rambling direction by theater and opera helmer Chen Shi-Zheng - or Liu Ye's impassive performance as the student.
December 07, 2008
Poignantly and sympathetically gets inside the confused head of an Asian immigrant rarely seen in film, a grad student flummoxed by American culture and academic politics.
April 18, 2008
It is easy to see the film as two movies crammed together, neither of them being very good.
April 18, 2008
A remarkable whisper of a movie as well, for something that deals with a subject as alarming as campus violence.
August 15, 2011
We know we're in strange territory from the opening shot.
October 18, 2008
The film does a fine job of displaying the contrasts between these tense, formalized Chinese students and the faux populist American academics.
