This week in movies you missed: I play Netflix Instant roulette and watch a movie I never heard of with an intriguing description.
What You Missed
This is a first feature from writer-director Nir Paniry. It is not Mike Judge’s Extract.
The description that made me watch:
Thomas Jacobs can enter a person’s mind and view their memories, until a freak accident leaves him trapped inside the mind of a criminal. For four years, Jacobs fights to break free, until he makes a desperate bargain with the convict’s own thoughts.
What this doesn’t tell you is that Tom (Sasha Roiz, pictured) isn’t psychic. He has invented a memory-viewing device that, for some weird reason, gives him a third-person view of a given subject’s recollections, just like a movie. Once hooked up, you can traipse around somebody’s head and experience their dirty secrets without being detected by their subconscious.
Naturally, the Powers That Be (represented here by a single slimy corrections-department honcho) want to use the device to prove crime suspects guilty.
Tom has scruples about signing a contract with a nascent police state. But he also has a baby on the way and needs dough, so he agrees to be hooked up to a scuzzy young convict (Dominic Bogart) who insists he didn’t kill his girlfriend and wants his conviction overturned. Shenanigans ensue.
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