Captivating movie !

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Uncertainty is about a young couple of flip a coin to decide what they're going to do with the rest of their day. We, the viewers, are then treated to two different intermingling stories (parallel universes if you like) involving the same couple and showing us what happened along each path.It's kind of like Sliding Doors, but with a bit more action in it. One story involves the couple on the run from dangerous gangsters and the other involves them going home to their family.Now, it could just be me (I prefer the 'action' genre generally), but I found the half of the film dedicated to the couple on the run from the gang to be the far more entertaining of the two, while the story about them confronting issues with their family a little dull.It could just be me. Maybe someone who prefers drama over action would prefer the other one. Either way, everyone plays their part pretty well and there are worse films to watch.

When it comes to the crazy side of the coin, one of two things would have solved this young couple's dilemma: #1 Ditch the phone #2 Turn the damn ringer off, put it on vibrate or something. Then, as soon as you confirm that you will more than likely be killed before you'd be able to get any money, DITCH THE PHONE. and then change your blasted yellow outfits. This can be done long before prego GF is forced to run miles up and down stairs and into traffic, almost guaranteeing a miscarriage.Seriously, if you and your prego GF find a cell phone in a cab and foreigners start calling it and talking all kinds of scary mess, chuck that s--- out the window and get on with your life.Also, if you abandon my sound advice and the two of you find yourselves running and hiding from an Asian guy with a gun, tell your prego GF to stop making so many unnecessary piercing vocal noises- because this, along with the bright yellow matching hipster outfits, makes it really hard to hide from a gunman. Potential for a lot of suspense. But I had to constantly and viciously swat away nagging questions about their illogical behavior just to get some slight enjoyment out of this could-be suspenseful drama. And then the movie ends, and we assume they live happily ever after out of wed lock.

This is what happens when some movie executive thinks that an gimmmick is a good enough basis for a film.What you have is a vaguely interesting story which is intercut with a completely uninteresting story. Even the vaguely interesting bit only adds up to about 25 of a 1hr45min film.After about an hour of this nonsense i started forwarding the completely uninteresting bit.The gimmick is like this: Try to imagine i dunno, say 'phonebooth'. But at the start it splits into two separate strands.1. Colin Farrel went to the phonebooth and stuff happened.2. Colin Farrel did not go to the phonebooth but went on about his business like any normal day. Its stupid and only works if both strands are interesting.In fact i am typing this while the 'intersting' bit is playing in the backgound in a tiny hidden window. So, I guess im not that impressed.

The 2nd best of the four movies I rented last week. The best, by far, was The Green Zone. Uncertainty needed a final act to make it one of the most excitingly fresh low budget films of the year. We never got the final act. We got what we expected 20 minutes into the movie. I'm not going to divulge much of the plot, but let's just say that, had this film thrown together a big finale', we might have one of 2010's ten best.The chemistry between the two leads is quite excellent, and the dual narratives are both interesting and well acted.Uncertainty laid out the foundation for a fantastic story, but failed to develop the story down the stretch run. Just about every characteristic of the movie is above average - so I can marginally recommend this movie to film buffs and friends alike, but much like ' A Scanner Darkly' and 'Midnight Meat Train', Uncertainty seemed a bit uncertain(pun intended) on how to finish itself. It's missing the ingenious plot twist/storyline that could have really pushed it over the top, making us certain that it was a fantastic work. A couple of possibilities crossed my mind on how this could have been done.As it stands, this is above average, but won't be garnering a cult following, or any academy awards.64/100