A too deeply submerged mystery movie. It's evident immediately that something funny is going on, but it takes exasperatingly long to find out just what. Mind-control through TV commercials turns out to be Crichton's primary bone to pick -- a well-picked bone, of course, long before he gets hold of it. Even his most original concept -- some sort of flashlight gun that hypnotizes and paralyzes -- comes to seem old and worn-out by the time he is through playing with it.

Could have been a lot better done

If you want to see a really dated 80's movie, here's my pick

80s sci-chedelic fun... Light Oriented Ocular Kinetic Emotive Response!

"As you can imagine there are too many things going on here and the film suffers from it."

All I remember was an intriguing premise and a silly ending

Not bad.