Millions

You can't beat a free screening for a movie--no matter if it's good or bad--but with "Millions," I knew I wasn't seeing something that could ever be called "bad."

From director Danny Boyle ("28 Days Later" and "Trainspotting") comes this visually spectacular and unconventional family film that's bound to confuse and quirkify viewers for years and years to come. The story is told through the eyes and imagination of a young boy named Damien and Boyle definitely has this part of the movie down cold. Even when the story changes directions and changes again and keeps going in a different way, you may feel a bit lost but it's not a bad kind of lost...just the kind you often feel when a kid is trying to tell you a story and you don't really know if it will ever have an official ending.

Although the movie's opening sequence is one of the most exhilerating pieces of filmmaking and one of the most enchantingly beautiful film beginning to come out since "Magnolia" and "Amelie," "Millions" doesn't always keep that magical spark alive even if it tries so very hard to do so. It's quirky, kooky, and odd...but all in good ways. It has its dark moments and moments so gloriously magical, you swear you're watching a deleted scene from "Amelie," but it also has some very very original moments and this is what makes it a unique and special treat. Without giving you a plot rundown (as I feel the trailers have already given too much of the plot away---so if you haven't seen a trailer for it yet, DON'T!), let me just say that "Millions" is the first movie since "The Passion," that seems to give God such an explicitly assumed role in the playing out of the film. It's not a truly great movie but there are moments in it that are truly great. Like the dreamy-eyed night sky filled with falling british pounds picture from the film's poster that you'll likely see once it starts hitting more theaters nationwide, the movie has a surreal quality to it that goes where few movies have gone before.