FROM NIC BAISLEY, FILMSNOBBERY.COM: Jesse Pomeroy crafts an intricate tale of self-discovery, suspense, and shock value in “World Full of Nothing”. This movie starts out right off the bat with a very gruesome looking webcam confessional and suicide. This sets up an investigation into recent copycat teenage suicides that are recorded and posted onto the internet for entertainment. And it also leads one FBI investigator (Angela Bozier) to obsess over a girl, Rachael (Bella Nelson) who is threatening to kill herself, and leaving clues to her who she is so that she can be “saved”. Unfortunately the person trying to “save” her is a child rapist that Angela’s character Krissie Templeman has been going undercover to catch before he hurts someone else. Krissie’s character is a little too overdeveloped, and much of her backstory with the FBI could have probably been dropped. But the way the actress emotes and interacts with the other characters is spot on. Her character’s drive and passion to save Rachael is both heartwarming, and also is a good suspense builder. What will happen if she can’t get to her in time? Will Rachael kill herself? Or will her cyber-stalker kill her first? The subject matter of this movie alone is enough to scare some audiences away, but at the same time I think this is an important film to see. What this film says about internet safety, interacting with your children, and the dangers of conformity are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what this movie has to say. Indictments of the media, peer pressure, religion, and government run rampant throughout this flick, leaving me to think that the director (who also wrote this movie) had a whole lot to say, and jammed it all into this movie. In this sense it seems like it tries to say too much, but I suppose that’s better than some movies that have nothing to say at all! Not for every audience, but certainly for an audience…I look forward to seeing this run through the festival circuit and on a DVD shelf someday, as I can predict this could become a cult classic given a chance.

FROM ADAM DANIEL MEZEI: Not since Armenian-Canadian auteur Atom Egoyans Adoration has an indie flicker picture so gravely tackled the subject of the web s pernicious influence on the naive minds of impressionable young internauts.A rash of copycat teen suicides that s been tying up FBI Agent Krissie Templeman (Jo Bozarth) in stitches as Templeman trawls the net s vastness to pinpoint the very next one. She goes native on us the deeper she plunges into the dark blue abyss of teens who wish nothing more than to prematurely put an end their unlived lives. Then we got poor Rachael (Bella Nelson), who s almost daring us to permit her to pull the gun s trigger. She emits video bursts of her capricious insolence onto ultra-popular video sharing sites, hoping that some attention-starved zero jacks her view numbers into the stratosphere. Encircling the film like a gossamer sheen is the omnipresent discussion about the malicious effect the net is having on our 21st-century youth. Mock boisterous TV talk shows are the fertile arena for spirited debate about the demerits of the World Wide Web with rampant allusions casted by these invited panels of experts (among others, played this time, by a near-veteran turn by Pomeroy s mom well done) that the global interwebs be dismantled. These various blowhards attempt to convince the viewers that stuffing the inter-genie back in the Coke bottle will save humanity while other pontificators, like the fire-and-brimstone breathing preacher (Greg Travis), entreat us to prostrate ourselves to the Son of God as the lone salve for the human race on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Refereeing this roiling contentious mass of utter disharmony is the famous host Rupert Michaels (James Cameron-vet Richard Gunn), who aghast mediates the discussion with a modicum of respect, though it s painfully clear he totally disagrees with practically everything being mentioned during this broadcast. Is there an exit from this morass? Can there even be said to be a win? World Full of Nothing posits that the mother lode of the damage has already been done, and all that s left for us to do is suppress to the best of our futile abilities any further havoc which a truly open, unfettered internet is having on our celeb-crazed, pop-drunk, overly-Westernized terra firma. Jesse Pomeroy skillfully posits the all-consuming question throughout WFON, does what we re doing on a daily basis really amount to a world of nothing?

FROM DIGITALCHICKTV: World Full Of Nothing begins with the live suicide of a teen committed on her video blog, which spurs a trail of copycat teen suicides, one of which may be 15-year old Rachael (Bella Nelson). In the very timely show focusing on the troubled social media generation who has grown up watching The Hills and Jersey Shore and a live streaming video of Lindsay Lohan being sentenced to 90 days in jail, Rachael then sets up a vlog pointing out the absurdity of teenage suicide, while also declaring her own intention to kill herself unless someone can prove to her that life is worth living. She’s a bit of an instigator, this Rachael. Her campaign catches the interest of both an internet predator and an FBI profiler who are soon to discover the young woman has very different intentions than they expected. A social issue drama in the spirit of Citizen Ruth, World Full of Nothing points out the sensationalism of youtube, news media, tabloidism, and pundits, and also the complications of growing up in a disconnected public culture. It is 100% NOT INTENDED for troubled youth, but more for the generation of adults that does not understand them.