Sci-fi Sleepers: Visioneers

Visioneers (2008)

Director: Jared Drake
Writer: Brandon Drake

Starring:
Zach Galifianakis
Judy Greer

Trailer Opening Scene

Imagine a time not too far off from our own, in a world not completely unlike our own. Imagine the 1999 classic Office Space and compare it with your current reality. Imagine 1985’s Brazil existing in the same time line a century into the future. Move forward in this seemingly familiar world; not too far, but just far enough to make things just barely uncomfortable, like the first few seconds right before you realize that is your grandmother.

This is the closest I can come to describing the setting, atmosphere and mood of Visioneers. Starring Zach Gallifanskaufasssss, which most may know from the summer romp The Hangover or his half-million comedy central stand up shows with Dave Attell and Patton Oswalt, as a lowly Level Three TUNT working for the Jeffers Corporation. His wife is played by the ever-gorgeous in that nerdy-and-funny-way Judy Greer who you may recognize as Kitty from “Arrested Development”.

I’m going to try and not go much into actual plot in these little writeups, but instead I’m going to try and convey the important aspects of the movie that I enjoy and that I think will give a good indication as to why you should watch this movie. In a list form. Because everyone loves lists.

• In this totally plausible, yet just out of reach semi-dystopian future,  it turns out that people are spontaneously exploding all over the goddamned place from “stress”.
• On each office wall is a ticker counting down the remaining minutes of productivity left in the week. Each minute that passes is accompanied by a corresponding announcement that states the same.
• Funny words like “Tunt.”
• Sweet backyard pole vaulting action.
• Giant teddy bears and butter churning.

Available now via Netflix (Watch Instantly in HD) or pick up the DVD at your local Amazon.

I hope do do more of these Sci-fi Sleeper non-reviews in the future; I already have the next two or three films lined up. I’ll keep exploring the format until I get one that I think works at least half-entertainingly, so  look forward for the next one coming within this month.

Tags: dystopia, orwellian, sci-fi sleepers, scifi, visioneers