Protraph Lack of good storyline.

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

Alex.la7 It was not until toward the end that you found out that this is just a long pitch for the Ramtha cult. The movie mixes weak assumptions from quantum physics with New Age thought. Throw in some pseudoscience and magical thinking that you can construct your own reality, you have this garbage. The methodology is to start gently with some true, but very limited and selective statements about quantum physics and neurobiology. These parts are often said by scientists, but then these are mixed together with talks from Ramtha cult representatives in order to draw far-reaching (to not say completely incorrect) conclusions about metaphysics. I can understand that some people caught up in the rhetoric, but this is certainly a film that only spreads ignorance and misinformation.

Howard_B_Eale What a shockingly rough movie to watch. While there are plenty of clues in the film itself, it's pretty hard to discover who is REALLY behind the movie without digging deep: The Ramtha School of Enlightment (or RSE). RSE is another Scientology-like "cult"-like religion, so BE ADVISED that you are in for a namby-pamby recruiting tool rather than an informative movie if you go to see "What the Bleep Do We Know". The movie: Marlee Matlin mugs and grimaces her way through this horrendously-directed digital atrocity, making for plenty of unintentional and embarrassing laughs as she mouths her dialogue in classic "deaf" accent, surrounded by headache-inducing, often intrusive CGI animation (the entire theme of which is ripped straight from the classic short film "Powers of Ten"). The film presents a universe so perfectly caucasian that when ethnicity is finally portrayed you actually get a WISE BLACK BOY WITH A BASKETBALL (I'm not kidding) and a Native American in full stereotypical feathered head-dress. Matlin's character lives in a faux-industrial yuppie loft (appropriate, considering it was shot in the loft-happy Pacific Northwest) and has a "wacky" artist roommate.Furthermore, the film is so unsure of itself and its narrative that it winds up playing any attempts at humor with equally broad strokes; within one atrocious set piece (an apparent Polish wedding) there is a "Polack" joke which goes un-challenged, grotesque sub-Pixar CGI creatures running about, "Porky's"-level teen sex gags, an embarrassing "polka" dance number and even a very graphic near-porn moment or two. All of this "legitimized" by the often spaced-out meanderings of various real-life scientists, mystics (yes, mystics), chiropractors and writers, who throw quantum theory at the viewer through a series of impenetrable interviews (and none of the voices are given screen identification until the end of the film). There's even a totally out of place sequence discussing crystals, sure to tickle the new-agers in the audience. It all doesn't add up to a hill of beans in any informational sense... 108 minutes of a handful of simple messages, among them: addiction is bad, right and wrong can get very confused, black children aren't all thugs and monogamy is always for the birds.Previous cult leaders have made movies before; The "Moonies"' Reverend Sun Myung Moon and "Inchon"? At least that was basically just a dull war movie, rather than a blatant recruitment tool for a cult. You have been warned.

Ajinkya Kolhe As for me, this is a really good documentary and as some negative reviews pointed out skeptically, it DID leave a positive impact on me. But that was not the only thing that it did as they also said. I come from India where science and spiritualism have been deep rooted and our mythological Gods have long performed miraculous acts which were once frowned upon as only myths. We have hundreds and hundreds of tales describing the miracles that the old sages performed by meditating for long spans of time and being gifted to do particular things. Today, the world is slowly knowing the power of Yoga and Pranayama for improving life and health in general. We here strongly believe in the power of thoughts and the importance of subconscious and its connection to the physical world. I believe that we know very less about our existence and this documentary did quite a good job in giving a new perspective. Yes there was no factual data that it provided or there were no surveys conducted to prove the notion, but why do we always need quantitative proof for getting a point proved. and how many of us are really expert enough to comment. The only flip side of the documentary is however too much information to think over. If you are a general movie watcher, this is not an entertainer but a work put together by scholars as to what they think reality is. It is slow and methodical. It is for those who want to know and think things that are not part of our everyday table conversations. It gives us less information and more "to do" and I guess thats what has aroused all the skeptics about its credibility. With all due respects of course, it is just a matter of their choice whether to believe on the power of our minds and the extent to which it can be stretched.

acbader I don't have much in-depth knowledge of quantum physics, but with a very good high school physics, I had enough prior understanding to realize that this movie is not, in fact, a crash course in quantum physics, biology, psychology or neuroscience. It seemed to me more of a call to realize that we live with many assumptions that may or may not have any basis whatsoever, and that it is completely within our power to break away from these assumptions, from which we create our daily tendencies. I don't think that the movie ever makes the claim that a basketball can actually be in two places at once, or that we can shape water with our minds. The point is that we are in a universe that is growing larger and more confounding with every discovery that we make, and often times we hide within our own addictive tendencies and make the decision not to move forward. It is indeed incredible that we are all made up of the same stuff as the universe around us, but we alone have the gift of observation, thought and decision-making. We, as individuals, and as a race could make better use of this power to be our own God, to define our world as modern science makes both matter and our mind more pliable. Call out whatever facts or inconsistencies you want, that isn't the message that I am choosing to take from this movie. It was thought-provoking and empowering, even though the creators may not have made some of the best decisions with analogies or special effects.