Sadly Over-hyped

Good concept, poorly executed.

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

It is sort of a typical 90s sci-fi/quasi horror movie. One of the movies that could only really get made in that decade where they were green lighting things that otherwise would have been shoved aside and giving chances to new actors, new directors, new writers, and new ideas.Film back then, well, it was free and the last decade of actual art in cinema.So....that being said, the movie isn't art.But it is original. You don't see movies like Convergence every day.You get a feel that it is trying to be "The X-Files" and you get a feel that it is trying to be "Kolchak." And you get a feel that it is trying to be "The Paper" all at the same time.The premise is what sold me on it. Tabloids in the era where I would pick up the Weekly World News to read about Bat Boy. You never believed any of it but, yet, well, it was trash and entertaining.That was back in the day when tabloids weren't even trying to disguise their stories as the truth. Now they are and politics is suffering for it.But back then, you could read it for what it was...trash.Convergence is a "what if the tabloids actually reported the news?" sort of story. "What if the Weekly World News had real reporters on its staff and not just sci-fi and horror writers trying to make a living?" It makes for an entertaining film, or at least a film that you can safely roll your eyes at, and still enjoy for what it is.It entertains, and that is all you need, right?

The great Christopher Lloyd cannot save this ponderous story about ... What? I'm not sure and was not excited enough to finish it despite sitting down to it a couple of times. Nice moody cinematography. No special effects to speak of. Really a drama and not horror, which is where I found it at the rental store.

I enjoyed this movie, very much. I keep expecting certain things and never got them. This was a very original film, not at all what I expected.Adrian Paul was terrific. His character when from shy to aggressive in the blink of an eye. After seeing him in the Highlander movies and series this was certainly a change.I loved this movie!

An excellent and quite original film. Nothing too gruesome happens, but the suspense is kept up very well. Strange things start happening to a tabloid journalist, including predictions of death, and airplane parts appearing. A particular highlight was the brilliant portrayal of madness, both in the hospital and the friends.Only one point let it down (badly), when the all-knowing, black cafe owner explains the strange happenings: "...it's like the Bermuda Triangle or Stonehenge..." !!???!!! Maybe you could get away with a line like that in the 1970's, but not now, please ...