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This TV movie is about a retired scientist who invented a car that doesn't have an engine but runs on solar paint. Unfortunately as pro-green as it sounds, this invention threatens the petrol & gasoline industry and they didn't want this patent to exist in this world at all. 2 hit men are hired to kill him off but before they can do that, a popular TV crew arrived & had an interview with him. They then have to start getting rid of all things that are related to this invention and this is where the plot begins.

After a strange car accident, Eve seems to have lost her memory from the concussion. While trying to revive her memory, she looked for Harry, who's a motivational speaker at a seminar & she started to slowly regain bits & pieces of her memory. But while this is happening the hit men are already hot on her heels without her understanding why. Eve then roped in Harry and her cameraman to solve the mystery of what this conspiracy is all about.

A very Pro-Environment story which makes sense, make sure you watch till the very end where the scientist speaks...

Just poorly thought out. Lets start with the usual conspiracy against the status quo. The movie was made this year (2009), oil companies everywhere are diversifying into alternate energy programs. They own the distribution channels so why would they not simply buy in?

Having a patent does not mean the inventor gets rich, ask Tesla (the inventor, not the car company) and too many others to cite. The inventor typically sells the rights due to costs of refining the product, procuring business credit to buy more than a few parts, selling the product, distributing the product.

The guy at the patent office who logs in and removes the patent application. Database systems with that much at stake log every event. And that deletion would have been noticed. Also the servers get backed up nightly so the application is ** still ** in the system.

The hit men, if you are from small town America everybody notices the strangers in town who are riding around in a black (helicopter) SUV. They were wearing suits and ties. And they are careless. You just can't shot and kill everybody and no one notices.

The reporter whose truck was run off the road. Why did the hit men just assume the two reports were dead, they should have searched around the vehicle.

Just stupid stupid movie.

Intriguing premise; a reporter escapes an attempt on her life, but suffers temporary amnesia and doesn't know why she's a target but, not well done. If this film was made today the basic McGuffin, concern about global warming, would carry more weight, as would the conspiracy to remove one of the guys with a solution. The reporter's loss of memory and the behaviour of the hit men would also be more convincingly portrayed. As it is we get a cheap, slow and rather unrealistic story in which a drop-out professor invents a solar-cell paint. A big, anonymous oil company feeling threatened sends two hoods to silence him, but not before tabloid tv reporter Eve has interviewed the academic, putting herself and the cameraman in line for silencing. Their car is run off the road and Eve wakes up with no memory of what has happened. This is where it starts to get unbelievable. She appears to retain most of her cognitive functions and awareness, finding her way to a lecture being given by fake motivational speaker Harry Griggs whom she had ridiculed in a report. Unfortunately the hit men turn up at the same location and start blasting away at Eve and Harry on the car park. Although a lobby full of people fail to notice anything! So they head off to the police right? No, the film's only 20 minutes in! Instead they go to a bar where she calmly and rationally explains to Harry about her memory loss. He finally tells her who she is and where she works. So then they go to the TV studio to talk to staff and find out what her assignment was - yes? Wrong again. They wait until the studio is closed and sneak in to check her PC. They then go to her house where the gunmen again turn up and start shooting up the quiet neighbourhood which is obviously populated entirely by deaf people! They escape again and Eve gradually starts remembering bits and pieces. Oh, and it turns out that the camerman survived the crash and has been explaining everything to the police. When will you learn? He has of course been holed up in a motel scared stiff. Finally they all make contact on yet another car park just as the assassins arrive. Only this time the police also materialize although it is not clear who exactly summoned them! Like I say, it has all the elements of a very good chase movie. It's just too hard to swallow

Eve Preston is an aspiring television reporter appearing on KQAP News at Five in Philadelphia. Eve's forte is the sleazy journalism that examines human interest stories while ridiculing her subjects. "Reverse Angle" is Eve's awakening to a new kind of social consciousness in her reporting.

The filmmakers were successful in developing a tongue-in-cheek approach to a serious subject. After all, the murder of the decent MIT inventor Ned Larfield, who discovered a way to harness solar energy, was a sad loss for the planet. Eve's temporary amnesia has blocked in her mind the interview she conducted with Larfield at his retreat on Glen Pebble Road. The film footage appears to be lost, and Eve was subsequently run off the road and left for dead by two men in suits.

The scene stealer in the show is the actor playing "Doctor" Harry Briggs, psychologist. After having been satirized by Eve in one of her exposés, Harry comes to her rescue and helps her to recover her memory. The duo then do battle with the corporate forces of evil. Harry serves in the major transformation of Eve from a purveyor of yellow journalism to one of stature in investigative reporting.

The strength of the film was in the clever dialogue, especially the repartee between Eve and Harry. There was a nice touch at the end with young Janie recovering Ned's application for a patent that may include the template for his invention of a self-sustaining motor vehicle. With assistance from the "new" kind of reporting of Eve, there may be hope for humanity!