Richard Kelly's blow-up of a Richard Matheson short story titled "Button, Button" is a would-be cult film from the writer and director of the already-been cult film Donnie Darko. Commingling space exploration, Arthur C. Clarke, Jean-Paul Sartre, body-snatched zombies prone to nosebleeds, and mid-Seventies period trappings, it's an overelaborate and overextended "Monkey's Paw" parable wherein a mystery man with an eaten-away left jaw and exposed molars (Frank Langella plus digital touch-up) offers a financially pinched couple (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) a test of their moral fiber: push a button, receive a million dollars, but cause the death of some unknown someone. The push-button motif admittedly carries a certain resonance in the atomic age, but the soft smeary image acts as a wet blanket to deaden that or any other resonance. (2009) — Duncan Shepherd
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