So yeah, I watched "9". It's thoroughly incoherent. In the 10-minute short film that it's based on, just about everything is left unseen. Which works well - it's all mysterious and you're free to insert your most convincing explanation.
But by expanding it they just show how flimsy their actual ideas were. How many different things can the glowing MacGuffin do? Why does it fit perfectly into that slot in the Machine? And really, what the heck did the Scientist want the ragdolls to do with it? Because that didn't seem to be what happened...
When I can watch a movie, guess what's going to happen next, and be disappointed that my guess made far more sense than what actually happens... you know something's gone wrong. (For the record: the problem with the machine was allegedly that it had no soul. The MacGuffin is sucking souls into it. So
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