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List Price: $24.98 | | Label: Cloud Ten Pictures
Salesrank: 18271
Released: September 2, 2008 |
| Our Price: $12.50 |
| Used Price: $7.94 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A terrorist gathers a scientist, seminary student, pro baseball player, professor, casino owner, painter, and a pizza delivery guy together to attempt to solve the world's problems in one night. Seven geniuses with IQs over 200 are taken from their lives on Christmas Eve and are put through the greatest test of their lives. If they fail, the world will come to an end. By morning, the group finds redemption in themselves and quite possibly the world.
The Genius Club Reviews:
Sophomoric 
2008-09-20 - For a room full of people with IQs over 200 IQ, the level of conversation about the big questions facing the globe were below the average of an undergraduate's dorm after a heavy night's drinking. The questions and solutions were trite, simplistic, and wrong. There was quite a bit of discussion on whether God exists, and the answers pro and con were so dumb that one wonders in the the producer, writer and director Tim Chey had ever actually read about this topic before he wrote the script. The only saving grace in this movie was an over the top role by Tom Sizemore, playing the maniac threatening to destroy DC with a nuke. By the end, I was rooting for the bomb to be detonated.
Save your money and buy something else, anything else.
The Merit of Argument 
2008-09-04 - I have to admit to being an emotional person and this to better explain why I liked this movie. The premise of this movie is quite weak: a scientist with an IQ of over 200 builds a bomb and threatens to blow Washington DC to smithereens unless the President brings together all the people he can find with IQs over 200 to an abandoned building in DC to play a game. The game consists of a Q & A with questions all relating to solving the world's problems. If the participants can amass 1,000 points before dawn the next morning, they can walk and DC is safe. At times, the discussion was reminiscent of university lectures I've attended but as the questions progressed to being more moral, the feel of the movie changes.
That said, I can say that it is the argument that really shows the intelligence of "The Genius Club." The second half definitely clinched it for me as the story progresses into the lives of each participant, woven into the Q & A session. The majority of the stories are emotionally charged and ranges from the woman dying of cancer, confronting the President on why he cut back on cancer research spending to the discussion of faith in God and being atheist.
I truly underestimated this movie and I have to say that when I walked out of the theater, I was a pleasantly surprised, sopping mess.
