Huge fan. I haven't read any reviews that mention the quality of the lighting and sound. They were all so well done that they put many a large-budget movie to shame. The sound quality in the live-band rock and roll scenes alone was spectacular. Also - the casting was really well done. In the DVD special features you hear the pains they took to get the casting right (auditioning 1000s). And it shows. There is not a false acting note in the entire movie.I have tiny quibbles with the turning point at the end of act 2 in the script, where the major setback gets verbalized in a Sex-in-The-City- like internal monologue that felt emotionally and intellectually off key for the main character. But its nothing that impacts the genuine affection I feel for this gem of a movie. Hollywood Producer Alert. If you are a production company trying to make really high quality movies at low budget, these guys are the real deal - proved commodities.

About the best I can say is this movie held my attention. Dakota's subtle superhero power and the tie-in to the comic book hero/anti-hero concept is clever. It's what I hoped the movie would center on. Unfortunately, that part of the story turns out to be more gimmicky than profound.Dakota is not a particularly likable or interesting main character. For someone with such a gift, you would expect a more dynamic character. But she comes across as self-centered and shallow. It's hard to understand what Jonah sees in her. She's moody, quiet, and never really offers anything meaningful to build the relationship on, whereas the script allows Jonah's character to appear emotive, interesting and interested. Its easy to understand her attraction to him, but not so much the other way around. For the movie's sake, the saving grace for the relationship is the tension it creates due to Dakota's infidelity to her boyfriend, Kevin.Perhaps the writers and directors deserve some credit for capturing the somewhat vapid existence many teens experience as they try to transition to adult life with adult relationships.The acting is a bit wooden at times, and the script is a bit too mired in the style of teen-speak ("Dude, I'm down with that.").This movie had a lot of potential based on the superhero angle. Instead, it turned into a treadworn story of puppy-love.

What a joke, shots were out of focus sometimes and I could swear I saw a boom somewhere in the shot. Poor acting, even worse script. Some of the worst directing I've ever seen. Very sophomoric. There was very little substance. Mostly fluff and childish lines. Very cliché as well.If you pay close attention, you'll notice how bad of a production this actually was. These guys are clueless!Was this supposed to be a comedy, because I couldn't stop laughing.This is pathetic What a joke, shots were out of focus sometimes and I could swear I saw a boom somewhere in the shot. Poor acting, even worse script. Some of the worst directing I've ever seen. Very sophomoric. There was very little substance. Mostly fluff and childish lines. Very cliché as well.If you pay close attention, you'll notice how bad of a production this actually was. These guys are clueless!Was this supposed to be a comedy, because I couldn't stop laughing.

This is a small, quirky but interesting movie.Eileen April Boylan is Dakota Skye, a senior in high school in Phoenix. As she describes in the opening voice-over, she has a super power, but not the typical type. She isn't extra strong, she can't fly, and a bullet would surely kill her. But she can tell when people are lying and what they really mean. As we see her friends say things to her, white subtitles tell us what they really mean. Her boyfriend is J.B. Ghuman Jr. as Kevin. Kevin is a singer in a grunge band and tells Dakota "I love you" but the subtitles tell us he means "I want sex." Dakota seems stuck at a crossroads, her friends are all studying for the SAT but she doesn't know what she wants to do. Things get complicated when Ian Nelson as Jonah Moreno shows up in town. He is an old friend of Kevin's, in fact used to be in the band, but now lives in New York and hopes to make it as an actor.Jonah is different in one very important way. He never lies to Dakota. She finds that interesting, even tries to surprise him with a tough question, but he is honest with her. This is a first in her life and she doesn't quite know how to handle it. A different movie, I enjoyed it.SPOILERS: Dakota finally started getting tired of Kevin's antics and ended up spending a 24-hour time with Jonah when they ended up at the Grand Canyon at daybreak, probably a 5-hour, 250 mile trip. They developed a chemistry, but Dakota was stuck, not knowing what to do. Jonah left for NY, eventually Dakota abandoned the relationship she seemed stuck in and looked Jonah up in NY.