Fateful Findings (2013)

A computer scientist/novelist reunites with his childhood friend while facing the dire and fateful consequences of his mystical actions.

Director:

Neil Breen

Writer:

Neil Breen

Stars:

Neil Breen, Klara Landrat, Jennifer Autry

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Neil Breen	...	Dylan
Klara Landrat	...	Emily
Jennifer Autry	...	Leah
Victoria Viveiros	...	Amy (as Victoria Valene)
David Silva	...	Jim
John Henry Hoffman	...	Dr. Lee
Gloria Hoffman	...	Dr. Andra
Danielle Andrade	...	Aly
David Scott	...	Dr. Rosen
Steven Nelson	...	Corporate CEO
Richard Hunsacker	...	Bank President
David Miranda	...	Senator
JR Thompson	...	Congresswoman
Ryan Collis	...	Wall Street broker
Jaime Reborn	...	Insurance President (as Jamie Reborn)

Storyline

A small boy discovers a mystical power as a child. He is then separated from his childhood girlfriend. He grows up to be a computer scientist who is hacking into the most secret national and international secrets, as well as being an acclaimed novel writer. His childhood 'finding' gives him amazing paranormal powers. He is reunited with the childhood girlfriend, mystically, on his hospital deathbed - as his relationship with his current drug addict girlfriend is deteriorating. The passions build between the threesome. Mystical, psychiatric and worldly forces rise to prevent him from revealing the hacked secrets. He attempts to reveal all in a Washington DC large press conference, with 'fateful' and dangerous consequences.

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Plot Keywords:

bad acting | kidnapping | rescue | assassination attempt | suicide by gunshot | 

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Genres:

Drama | Fantasy | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

14 January 2014 (USA)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Although not acknowledged as such, this film is actually a remake of Double Down, Neil Breen's first feature film. Both feature Neil playing a super hacker tackling national and international corruption while pining for lost love. Both make little to no sense and are hypnotically enticing despite featuring no real plot at all. In fact, every Neil Breen film is the same film.

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Goofs

Dylan and Emily are swapped in different spots as opposed to the foot shots, where Emily was on the left and Dylan was on the right.

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Quotes

Emily: I want you to try this new wine.
Amy: I'd love to try your wine!

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Crazy Credits

At the end of the credits, a disclaimer reveals that "any of the above listed companies in the credits with an 'N' or a 'B' in their name are fictitious. This work was actually done personally by 'Neil Breen'." The fictitious companies are NJN Sound Assoc. (sound editing), Casting N Entertainment, CNA (casting), Cine' N Collaboration, LLC (Set Design, Wardrobe, Props), Lighting N Films, LLC (Lighting Design), The BNB Effects Studio (Special Makeup Effects), BB Location Management (Locations), NNN Entertainment Partners (Administration & Accounting), Eats N' Eats Film. Inc. (Craft Services).

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Connections

Spoofed in Fatal Future (2018)

User Reviews

Not Even Worth One Star

I mean it, this is hands down the worst movie that I've ever seen in my entire life. For every bad movie I've ever seen, at least I could follow their storylines and there was some inkling of competence put into them. This movie doesn't even feel presentable, especially given the fact that it was released at a film festival. Although regarded as a "so bad it's good" flick, I do not feel that way as this film is so frustrating to sit through.

I don't even know how to describe the storyline as the movie jumps around from one plot point to the next, and not even in a coherent way. At first it seems to be about a boy named Dylan who develops these mystical powers from some black cube and soon uses them to hack into government databases as an adult, but then it constantly shifts between Dylan's friends subplots about these stupid marital dilemmas, Dylan's girlfriend's drug addiction, and even these disjointed misadventures with his childhood friend. The movie doesn't even really develop many plot points; the drug addiction plot point is barely looked upon, a teenage girl having a crush on Dylan is never bought up, and when Dylan's friend Amy shoots her husband Jim, we never see them ever again. Hell, even whenever Dylan goes back to hacking the government, I always forget it all happened, further proving how disjointed and confusing the "narrative" really is.

Adding on to that, the acting is incredibly wooden, and even saying that is an understatement. I guess the film's director could only use his friends for this, but couldn't he have at least tried to make them believable? When they're not failing to rise above being robotic, they either yell at the top of their lungs, or speak at such a monotone level that it's enough to make you fall asleep. However, the worst performance comes from the movie's creator Neil Breen, who plays Dylan himself, and does it so poorly that it's depressing to watch. At least Tommy Wise is so oddball ridiculous to look at and watch that his atrocious acting is delightful to sit through. Neil Breen doesn't rise above being blander than rice cakes and having less emotion than Bella from Twilight. When the best performance comes from a doctor at a meeting, there's a problem.

In terms of other aspects, I guess the cinematography and music are ok, but they reuse the same track over and over again, there are many long shots that don't even have much of a purpose to be there, and the effects are so obvious that even Birdemic had better effects. Oh, and there are a few times when the movie uses a green screen....not even gonna bother stating how obvious it is. I know this was made low budget, but if you can't even make your green screen look good, what's even the point?

To sum it all up....sigh.....no, I'm done. I'm done with this movie, I will never look back at it for the rest of my life. The story is incoherent, the editing is a mess, the characters are blank slates, the acting is worse than any Razzie Award winners, the cinematography and effects are at amateur level, and just everything about it is so poorly done that it's not even funny, it's just sad. If you find this movie ironically funny, good for you, but you will never hear me laughing at this movie, or even watching it anymore because it's that incomprehensible. Honestly, it would be better if you just slammed your head against a wall for 90 minutes instead of watching this, because at least then you'll leave more of an impact on that wall than Fateful Findings ever left on the history of cinema.