Altered Perceptions

An often uncommonly inept and endless disaster, Altered Perceptions follows an intergalactic prophet as he attempts to warn humans about an impending cataclysm. Filmmaker Jorge Ameer, working from a screenplay by Wayne C. Dees, delivers a low-rent and amateurish production that immediately establishes its less-than-professional sensibilities, as Altered Perceptions, which kicks off with eye-rollingly unconvincing voice-over narration wherein, on top of everything else, the word “lineage” is mispronounced, has been saddled with a whole host of incompetent attributes that cumulatively transform the movie into a seriously lackluster and interminable endeavor. (There is, for example, a scene in which the sound echoes whenever a character attempts to talk through a speakerphone.) Beyond its laughably clumsy elements, Altered Perceptions has been infused with a half-baked, slapdash narrative that rarely makes any sense and, in a far more problematic development, frequently emphasizes head-scratchingly racist, offensive plot points – with, as well, Ameer’s ongoing reliance on speechifying stopping the picture dead in its tracks on a continual basis. The final result is a hopelessly (and thoroughly) worthless piece of work that feels so much longer than its already-long 120 minutes, and it is, in the end, impossible not to wonder just what Ameer originally set out to accomplish with this trainwreck.

no stars out of ****