Quentin Dupieux (dir.) – Rubber
Most people will remember Quentin Dupieux as the man behind Mr Oizo’s ‘Flat Beat’, the smash-hit song that featured a yellow puppet of indeterminate species strutting his stuff to a grinding, electro groove. Dupieux also directed the promo, and perhaps he should have stuck to the pop vids if this ’ed-bangingly tedious feature length is anything to go by. A meta-black comedy about a tyre that comes to life and embarks on a psychokinetic killing spree across the US badlands, the film is neither scary nor particularly funny beyond its goofy premise, and a laboured subtext about the passivity of consumer culture makes this one wheel that’s in dire need of clamping. Alex Denney
