igofishing The main character's Tourette's episodes seem way overdone. His illness is distracting and hard to watch. I couldn't watch for more than 10 minutes. How can someone who can't focus be an artist let alone live by himself? Is Tourette's actually a visual perception problem like vertigo. Morrows over acting reminded me of a Talking Heads video. I guy Morrow couldn't tell himself that he is overdoing it. This is the problem with self-directed movies. I thought it was supposed to be a drama not a comedy. Morrow's acting would have played well in a National Lampoon movie. Could have picked a more appropriate title for the movie since it was misleading. Dizzy would have been closer to the truth.

tedg Spoilers herein.I have a hobby of carefully selecting films to see back to back. The very best experience is when you find two films that are imperfect by themselves, but when merged in one's mind become complete and powerful.This worked for me with `Maze' and `Immortality.' Both are about diseased, talented men who fall in love in an unwanted fashion. One involves birth, the other death. In perfect symmetry, one involves creative artifacts as art looking at bodies, the other art as actually being produced by bodies.One is a vampire movie. Vampire movies NEED redheads. The other film has the redhead, in almost irresistible, lovely, perfect openness. The vampire film eschews the compulsion and involuntary action usually found in the genre, where the other one embraces it.You really need to see both to see how perfectly these merge, how the impossibly sweet love of `Maze' fixes the problem with `Immortality' that the power of the love just isn't there. And similarly in `Maze,' the curse of the blood is always present, but never MEANS anything beyond a few comedic moments. Conflate the two and you have something constructed like Lynch's `Blue Velvet,' where darkness and light, love and curse, are played out as the battle between two film genres. `Velvet' had those two genres in the same film, but you as an intelligent viewer need not be so limited.You can even use the hooks each already provides: `Maze' shifts to shaky POV when the Tourette spasm strikes. Insert there, parts of `Immortality.' `Immortality,' on the other hand - following the French tradition - introduces the viewer (the policeman) into the story. He `creates' the vampire by watching: insert Lyle Maze's artistic process here, which in his home film is equated to the literal creation of a human (which is then introduced at an exhibit).Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.

TxMike "Maze" can be a bit of a misleading title. It seems to imply some sort of maze or puzzle, when it is in fact the last name of the character, NYC painter and sculptor Lyle Maze (Rob Morrow) who suffers from Tourette's syndrone. His best friend Mike, a doctor who volunteers for months at a time in far-away places, has been a steady number with pretty Callie (Laura Linney). Lyle does his best to cope with his illness, which greatly magnifies itself under stress. Such things as a new model posing nude for him, a casual date, seeing his father in the hospital, the impending first kiss with a woman. Photographically this is shown through Lyle's eyes as jerky, blurry, almost black and white images. That technique works very well in this film, to try and give the viewer an approximantion of what his illness does to him.some SPOILERS - Mike takes off yet another time, Callie tells him it is over, then finds out she is pregnant, considers an abortion but decides (good for her!) to have the baby. She and Lyle get closer, still just good friends, she poses for him, he agrees to help her through labor and delivery. Already attracted to her, Lyle falls in love with Callie. But he writes to Mike to let him know about the baby, Mike shows up shortly after Callie and baby "Will" go home, Mike and Lyle have an argument over Callie, the film ends with Mike on yet another trip, Lyle and Callie watching year-old Will play in the sand.What I like so much about "Maze" is that it doesn't take the usual approach, does not take the easy way out. Not everyting works out "happily ever after." As the ending song says, "Even a blind man can tell when he is walking in the sun." Metaphorically, Lyle has learned that he "is walking in the sun", through his relationship with Callie, helping her through pregnancy and delivery, even if he must forever suffer with Tourette's.I've been a fan of Rob Morrow's since his role as Doctor Joel on Northern Exposure. He wrote and directed Maze and has turned out a fine, thoughtful film. The Chemistry and Physics made by Morrow and Laura Linney works very well, so well they seems more like real people going through these struggles, not actors. Linney bravely does scenes with full frontal nudity, posing for Lyle. This is not a pretty film to watch in many places, because it dares to address some tough issues, but the overall effect is quite good. I give this film, "Maze", high marks.

LizzardMoz While flipping channels yesterday, I came across this movie. It immediately drew me in, and I found myself forgetting about everything around me. The character development and intense love story struck a chord in my whole being. I just fell in love with Lyle, and have so much empathy for how he lived and what he experienced. This was the most touching movie I have seen in a long while. It was not written just for the sake of telling a love story, but obviously written to tell a story about the souls of two people who fall madly in love. A learning experience about human nature and the human spirit awaits you in 'Maze.'