In trying to expand Richard Matheson’s brilliantly simple short story Button, Button, about a couple who are offered the chance of a huge amount of cash simply by pushing a button on a mysterious box (the catch being, it will kill a stranger), the director Richard Kelly drops the ball and proceeds to kick it around for several hours. Cameron Diaz and James Marsden, as the young pair, stagger bemusedly from one handsomely-mounted scene to the next, while Kelly papers over the storyline’s cracks with pretentious flourishes that would like to be David Lynch, but with the central conceit muddled in feeble conspiracy theory, they come off more like David Icke.
12A (115min)