Just as much fun as I thought it would be. Someone said Texas Chainsaw Massacre directed by David Lynch, and it's in the ballpark. An old tire comes alive (for absolutely no reason, we're told) and starts murdering people. Meanwhile, on a hill a mile away, a bunch of people have bought tickets to an outside viewing of a movie about an old tire that comes alive and starts murdering people... Part horror comedy, part sarcastic commentary on the movie industry's pandering to the audience, all fun.

A 4th wall molesting story about a killer tire. Lots of exploding heads. Luckily, I was in the right mood for this so I found it mostly hilarious. I can't really recommend that everyone watch it though, because I can definitely understand how people could hate it. A bit long even at 79 minutes. Would have worked better at an hour or less.

wings hauser deserves so much better than this bullshit

I feel like many people miss the point that Dupieux was trying to make. Rubber is the perfect social commentary on today's Hollywood-dominated cinema. I couldn't have asked for a perfect way to depict it. As Jodorowsky does when he makes a film, Quentin Dupieux made this film because he had something to say to society.

as social commentary this movie is crap, becoming what it criticizes. as an off-the-cuff horror/comedy it's definitely worth a watch. as a word of advice, it's better watched in a group because some of the lines a pretty quotable and who want's to quote a movie to themselves?

An audacious concept that quickly grows tiresome. ...get it?

Too long for this subject matter. I understand what it's trying to do but it still comes off as pretentious and the point could have been made 45 minutes faster.

Plus points for blowing up animals.

I was expecting this short feature film to overstay its welcome by drawing out the joke of its premise, but what I wasn't expecting was one of the greatest breaks of the fourth wall I've ever seen, that's introduced at the start of the movie and continued on until the end. Although that aspect is not hugely connected with the premise of this killer tire, I still applaud it for being so damn clever and original.

It's quite hard to write a serious review for a film about a psychokinetic killer tyre but I'll try my best. The majority of the film, with the exception of the scenes with Bob, are suprisingly dull but it's worth a watch for the last quarter which is fantastic and features some instant classic dialogue.

Interesting idea, but the developing was floppy.

I really wanted to see this and like this, but after 30 minutes of a tire rolling around on screen, I realized there are better things to do with my time.

One of the strangest movies i've ever seen, but I have to say, I couldn't STOP watching it!

Imagine if someone made a very low quality version of a misinterpretation of an early Michael Haneke film. The result would probably be much better than what Dupieux accomplished here, if we were charitable enough to even acknowledge that Dupieux actually has something here.

The opening scene proved to be funnier than the rest of the movie. They really didn't have to do much to make it good and funny. It just needs to be a telekinetic tire on a rampage, with things getting more and more crazy. The whole subplot of people watching with binoculars or whatever just took away from the experience and made it all less fun.

Nonsense alone doesn't make a good movie; doesn't make a philosophical statement; doesn't entertain.

The opening is pretty good and then it proceeds to tell the same not nearly as clever as it thinks it is joke for the next hour and a half.

Pointless. Yes I understood the point(lessness) of the movie. I just don't agree.

Im a big fan of bat-shit weird stuff, so suffice to say I loved this film. Not only is it an instant cult hit but there is also some depth here, or at least its not just your average comedy horror. Its like nothing you've seen before pretty much, I loved it, cant wait to see more of Quentin!

I loved Robert's character-building beginning, and it has a few interesting things to say, but it drags far too much in the middle act and gets a bit too cheeky, although things get better in the third act. Would work better as a short.

I'm not sure what it was that didn't sell the movie. Maybe the concept was just too awkward to carry itself as a feature. Maybe it just didn't explore the no 4th-wall idea it set up enough in order to send any real message. Or maybe it didn't fully indulge in the killer tire aspect. It's a good film, but not a great one. Definitely worth a look, I don't think I'd buy it though.

lol very original concept

This movie is about a tire. The simple fact that they made it seem plausible for a tire to be living, despite the mental powers, is reason enough to give this movie the highest score I can, but pile onto that a story which makes fun of the internet crowds and tv show/movie people then you're just baiting me to love it. But even so why did I give this movie a perfect score? No Reason.

Doesn't work too well as a feature film. I'm sure this would make a hell of a short.

Pointless, even though they try to make that fact the point. The embodied audience concept isn't completely worthless but it proves a failed experiment at best. The ridiculousness of it all holds a certain appeal but the film, inevitably, becomes very.... tyre-some. Ahem.

"Describing or discussing Rubber, a film about a telekinetic killer automobile tire, is apt to make it sound like an inspired bit of absurdist lunacy." - Nick Schager

I really liked the directing, but the script isn't quite funny enough to make up for the (intended) pointlessness.

Really languid pacing lets it down, would be considerably more entertaining if trimmed down in length.

geniaal! :)

There is no reason that this deserves better score.

A little overlong, but this is essentially Attack of the Killer Tomatoes a few decades later and a few times smarter. Very funny, and it does actually work on a few levels and has something to say without ever being preachy for a second. Surreal, inventive, and I honestly have no idea how they made that tire roll around like that. Enjoyed it a lot despite flaws that one really should be able to overlook seeing as the killer is a tire. Come on guys. Possibly the ultimate midnight flick

A story of a tire that wants to hurt people and the people that watch it do so and the people that make those people do so but are also the people who get hurt by the tire who also knows it is being watched by the people who were told to watch it. A very inventive, funny, self-referential movie that takes traditional B-movies and flips them upside down. Proves you don't need a big budget to make a good movie. Action is slow but the humour is always there.

its very experimental movie about a rubber :D

Maybe it's not the same for everyone, but in the weeks after I saw it, it grew in my brain like cancer.

A legitimately amusing absurdist conceit that works as a three minute trailer loses nearly all of it's charm and becomes grating when extended to a feature film, largely because of it's misguided attempt to combine the worst pretensions of both Quentin Tarantino and Michael Haneke (resulting in a film that would probably please neither of them, let alone the audience). Pretty good soundtrack though, i have to admit, although there should have really been more of it and less of everything else.

Its exceptionally pretentious, yet this does not harm the film because its one of the only ones I have seen that has lived up to its high concept and does not take itself seriously. Its at the right length, its funny, charming and intelligent, well shot and scored, and gives an inanimate object far more personality than most actors on screen. Its a great film and more because of this.

I like the idea(s) of it, but unfortunately it is quite trying viewing.

Watched it in Strasbourg Fantastic Film Festival. It was yet another example of how hard it is to be cheeky. When you cut the rope where the disbelief has been suspended , then it is very hard to make the movie roll. The rest of the audience seemed to enjoy it but it was too pointless for my taste. "But, that is thexact point" the director would say; my answer to that would be "No, you just made a bad movie"

Dead air.

subat 11, ifistanbul 11 & When you cut the rope where the disbelief has been suspended , then it is very hard to make the movie roll. The rest of the audience seemed to enjoy it but it was too pointless for my taste. "But, that is thexact point" the director would say; my answer to that would be "No, you just made a bad movie" (copy from evrana's critic)

"hey wait! he's been reincarnated as a tricycle!" what's there to say about a movie that doesn't want to say anything? it's remarkable how well the concept of no-concept works here. send a tire on a psychic killing spree and top off the whole thing with a weird subplot about people watching. make of it what you will, it's funny and unconventional. i just wish they had left the "no reason" part more to the viewer's own conclusion instead of constantly reminding via dialogue.

58.250

i've never seen so many heads explode in such a boring movie. basically this was an okay idea for a music video but someone decided to not cut it and call it an art film.

You're naughting but a rubbashi.