I mean, there's only so many times that chicken can cross the road before you wanna run the motherfucker down in a tank.

Certainly the film is plausible. It's not that far from the fetched to imagine such a situation occurring, and a cover-up stemming from it all. The authorities, y'see, don't want you to know who really shot this fella what made the Flight Simulators or whatever.

Also, the aesthetics of the piece are incredibly convincing, utilizing the news graphics and the CG Reconstructions and what not. If you tuned in ten minutes late, you wouldn't have a clue it was a spoof. I mean, it's not like Bill Gates has much to do with anything after the titles.

Also, The Citizens For Truth outfit what Nothing So Strange concerns itself with actually bring to mind the fringe parties in Life Of Brian, constantly sniping at one another and dissenting and so on instead of focusing on the issues at hand. Of course, Life Of Brian had other ideas, too, and jokes also, most of them very, very funny.

The characters and events in Nothing So Strange, though, with the possible exception of hardcore-conspiracy theorist David James, are crushingly dull to watch. They don't have subtleties or comedic timing, they just spout fictional statistics, never leaving an impression of any substantial import. It's convincing, but in the words of, I believe, Aristotle, "So the hell what?"

The irony is that, had this been presented as a conventional thriller type deal, it might actually have proved a much more satisfying film. The documentary stylistics present the "action" in a manner which demands our attention, and yet the onscreen malarkey is so unspectacular you wonder why anyone would bother shooting it.

It's not that I expected to see the cannibals or the Hellboy's or nothing running about the place, but the script is so dry you're liable to get a craving for the Pepsi just listening to it.

But, however, there's a thing to be discussed. (As The Crying Game will no doubt have taught you, there is always a "thing" hidden away somewhere amidst it all) The thing is, y'see, the passion what went into the creation of Nothing So Strange is on evidence throughout. And not just in the hour and 18 minutes of screentime, but on the web, even, in the shape of The Citizens For Truth Website, for example, which led indirectly to the crash of the South Korean Stock Market, after a confused news reporter caught wind of the very-convincing Bill Gates Is Dead theme of things.

This "web-universe" is arguably more interesting than the film. After all, the online presence was assisted by those fellas at Haxan Films, the ones what brought us Attack Of The Blair Witch or whatever, no strangers to online marketing themselves.