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The author Robert Scucci
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When Tommy Wiseau's Room when it was released in 2003, it didn't take long for audiences and critics alike to consider it “The Citizen Kane of bad movies.Wiseau, who wrote, directed, produced, edited, personally financed and starred in the film, decided to backtrack and say that the film was always intended to be a dark comedy rather than the serious drama he originally intended. However, there is one movie that confuses me more than Roomand this is Neil Breen Double Down.

Double Down, Breen's 2005 debut boasts similar Wiseau work, but plays it so straight that I'm actually not sure if he's true and false, or our generation's Andy Kaufman in the sense that he's been trolling his audience for two decades for the love of the game.

Suspense or satire?

Double Down is supposed to be a suspenseful thriller about shadow operations, computer hacking, bioterrorism, grief and revenge. The film's synopsis on IMDB says it's a “controversial story about a lonely genius who shuts down the Las Vegas Strip… The government can't stop him. As he reunites with his dead girlfriend every night.

On paper and at face value, Double Down sounds like a cross Hackers and John Wick movies, but what's on the screen couldn't be further from the movie's description. I can only guess that this synopsis was also written by Neil Breen, who, like Wiseau, wrote, directed, produced, edited, personally financed and starred in his own film.

Terrorism with a side of tuna

Neil Breen plays Aaron Brandt Double Downand he is a jack of all trades. He's a genius with remote access to every government satellite, and his list of accomplishments is as ridiculous as his denim vest, which adorns his various medals of honor (of which there are many). After Aaron becomes so “digitally and electronically powerful”, the Defense Intelligence Agency's Secret Strategic Support Division, with whom he previously worked so closely, feels threatened by his abilities and kills his girlfriend.

In a flashback sequence, Aaron swims face down, completely naked, in a swimming pool next to his dead girlfriend after screaming “uggghhh!” when he was fatally shot by a sniper hiding in the distance.

After being ordered by another country to shut down the Las Vegas Strip for two months, Aaron gets to work with his “small, simple, brilliant setup” of five laptops, a handful of flip phones and a couple of Dish Network satellites. attached to the trunk of his Mercedes.

Living in a hermit desert to secretly carry out his many acts of terror, Aaron drives around eating dry tuna straight from the can, despite also being a millionaire. While Bryn's many exposition dumps suggest that Aaron Brandt is a skilled mercenary of the highest order, he poses the greatest threat to humanity by trying to drive and eat at the same time, completely undermining the film's premise.

Lack of self-confidence or a joke?

It may seem like I'm making this all up, but Double Down is full of contradictions and surprises that make me wonder if Breen is in on the joke.

Double Down Anthrax-injected strawberries, botched newlywed murders, secret government meetings held in grocery store parking lots in broad daylight, hacking a Ferrari with a switched phone, curing brain cancer with a mysterious pebble, and Neil Breen sitting on his back. car, frantically tapping on several laptops that never seem to be turned on.

If you're a “nerd” like me, you'll notice that the technical knowledge depicted Double Down has a pass on all six Neil Breen movies, for example The fatal discoverieswhich are equally twisted.

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Tommy Wiseau may have changed his mind Room as a dark comedy, but Neil Breen has constantly “doubled down” on being a legitimate filmmaker and that he's the real deal. Whether he's a joke or not, I'm grateful to have been born into a world where Neil Breen exists because I've found so much joy in tearing through his filmography that I'm probably insane myself.

Until you can find Double Down you can listen anywhere you stream Genre vision podcast if you want to fall into the same Breen pit I'm currently trying to escape from.