Worst movie I have ever liked

It's true, this is a very weird movie.

The premise is interesting, the 1980s atmosphere is excellent, the actor performances are pretty good, the effects are sort of 'passable', and all in all, this movie is nice and good - - - on paper.

In reality, the movie just doesn't mesh. It's kind of hard to put your finger on it, as no single bit of the movie can be blamed, but there's something terribly off-putting and disturbing about this movie, and its story devolves into something nonsensical and chaotic by the end.

It tries very hard to be charming and 'folksy' (I guess - not sure if this is the right word, I probably shouldn't trust George Costanza), and the ending wants to be the typical silly, wacky, humorous and satisfying conclusion with the 'power' finding its 'proper owner'..

..but it just doesn't work. It's like a puzzle, where every piece is nicely done with respectable craftsmanship, but none of the pieces quite fit together, and the pieces don't form a coherent picture when put together.

In a way, there are more 'bizarre' movies, and the premise is pretty simple, but they make it a bit insane, crazy and evil in the end. If Chevy's character was a bit more sympathetic instead of vindictive jerk seeking for revenge for petty things, maybe it would work a bit better.

It's always a bad thing when no character is sympathetic enough to root for. When you consider every character a moron, jerk or just downright evil, you don't have an anchor in the story that you could use to put yourself in and sympathize with.

Chevy's character can be a bit of an egotistical blowhard and still charming and likable, like in the movie 'Fletch' and maybe even 'Just Like Old Times', but in this movie, it's hard to know what to think about him, except hate him and be repulsed by him.

If this was the only Chevy movie I've seen, I would probably hate him. Thankfully, I really like him in other movies, so I respect+like his on-screen charisma and acting ability and comedy.

This movie certainly 'falls flat' on so many levels - it start boringly and weirdly, then it goes into a solid, long boredom track, before interesting things start happening, but the development of the main gimmick is also slow and tedious.

By the time things really start to happen, the viewer is already confused, bored and quite irritated, and the downhill only starts from there.

The viewer is ready to laugh, ready to find the movie entertaining, but the movie just doesn't deliver. There are a couple of interesting or entertaining, relatable bits, but as mentioned, the humor is certainly mean-spirited.

It's a good point about 'disinterested' - when I look at him in this movie, that's exactly how he looks almost all the time.

It's not funny enough to be comedy, it's not coherent enough to be a mystery movie, it doesn't quite work even as a horror movie, and of course that injected romance has to ruin the rest. But even that is somehow really weird.

Most of the time, viewer doesn't know whether to laugh or be shocked or to try to feel sympathy or what. There has to be better movies about this idea somewhere.

It's like all the elements are there, but they don't work together, they don't gel, they don't fit, they're not done right - it doesn't form a coherent picture, there's something odd about this movie beyond the premise, story and the performances and the horror bits. There's something really strange about it from the beginning to end, and I can't quite put my finger on it.

This movie just isn't a pleasant experience on any level, it's impossible to enjoy it in any way.