Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

benmeijereft About: Prejudice, isolation of the unique and different, and all sorts of effects of the human condition come out. Highly inspirational.For an emotionally mature audience. If you want fast paced action, please skip. No covering up by flashy CGI. Real acting.Storyline: Powder is the name given to an albino kid named Jeremy Reed. The story of the strange case of Powder unfolds naturally, artfully. And what a story it is.What if? What if there was somebody who was more advanced intellectually and emotionally sensitive than all of us? The movie Powder helps you imagine what that would be like, and what we would run into. Powder shows us the best and the worst of our humanity, our limitations and our potential. And it does so beautifully, with appropriate drama. Questions about the meaning of life. It has a strong believable spiritual dimension without any fluff or bullshit. It shows the depth of compassion, and the shallowness of fear.Cast The acting is exquisite, very believable. Sean Patrick Flanery powerful performance of the tender and awkward Powder. Mary Steenburgen plays the social worker that finds him. Jeff Goldblum's character says "when technology surpasses our humanity". Upon seeing the movie a second time, the power of the music to move you and me becomes more obvious. Subtle, gentle, moving.Partly in the line of The Green Mile, a story about strongly evolved human empathetic qualities.For those who like to be stimulated to think and wonder about a possible future, and the shadow side of your collective fears, an absolute must see. This is not an SF movie, but like good SF, it asks the pertinent questions and it makes you think.

nlytnd_1 I just randomly thought of this movie again, since I remembered it being one of the most pointless movies I had ever seen.Essentially, if someone's different everyone will unprovokingly F with them and treat them like crap, then they'll be struck by lightning and die. That's the extent of this movies underlying message. None of the people involved in messing with Powder ever really come to any realization, like, maybe we shouldn't be messing with some dude minding his own business over there and others could have realized, maybe we could have learned something from this goth dude with superpowers. Even the one chick who was the nicest to Powder, was still unprovokingly a chaunch to him half the time as well. I would imagine that the story for this movie probably was deep and had a purpose, but anything of meaning/substance was trimmed away and it ended up being a pointless piece of crap.

billcr12 Look to the skies, especially for lightning bolts which appear repeatedly in Powder. The name is used on a high school aged boy to describe his pasty white skin. Jeremy(Sean Patrick Flanery) is an albino who has a magnet in his brain which causes strange things to happen when he shows up. His mother died shortly after his birth during a severe thunderstorm. His father left him with his grandparents and he did farm work and lived in a basement, reading every book available to him. After grandpa dies, the boy is taken by the state. He is placed in a high school and the physics teacher, Donald Ripley(Jeff Goldblum) tests him and is astounded that his i.q. is off the charts; a teenage Einstein is in school. The other students quickly resent him as an oddity. Jeremy hears a gunshot and when he goes to investigate, sees a doe on the ground, wounded and dying. Powder places his hand on the animal and his other hand on the deputy who shot it and his body sends the emotions of the deer into the officer. His perspective on hunting are forever changed. Word spreads through the town and another cop asks him to use his telepathic ability to communicate with his wife, who is close to death. He helps them with valuable insight.His schoolmates continue to taunt him and before it ends Powder delivers an important message in humanity. Flanery shows great range as the title character; hard to believe that he later played a vigilante lunatic in Boondock Saints. He makes this film work.

George D. Dodge In my opinion, Powder is one of the best movies ever made in regards to its message. It deals with the ridiculousness of prejudice, bigotry, false judgements, animal cruelty, love of nature, love of mankind, love of life, and love of your fellow man. This movie is filled with love, IF, and I say IF you can "see" it. It is right in front of you. All you have to do, is really "watch" and "listen" to the movie.The acting is excellent. The music is excellent. The story is excellent and easy to follow. Cinematography is excellent. Directing is excellent also. It is a true winner.I wish more movies like this were being made. The world needs them, especially in this day and age..