ENIGMA MOVIE CODE

Working long hours into the nights and sacrificing weekends provided the time to create the world of Enigma. With the tremendous amount of complex visual effects and having to hold down busy full-time jobs, the post production process was often a difficult task to juggle. Post production comprised the majority of the process, taking a little over four years to complete. Principal photography went over the course of six days, with two rounds of weekend pickups. Jason and Matt spent six months developing the script and pre-producing the film. Since they both have a love of sci-fi, this turned out to be the perfect genre for them to create their first film together. Jason being from the live action world and Matt from the animation world provided an opportunity to bring something unique to the independent film world. The project started with an idea to collaborate on a film. RhysĮnigma was a pet project of the Shumway Brothers for five years. At 34th Street Showplace, near Second Avenue Loews State 2, Broadway and 45th Street Orpheum, Third Avenue and 86th Street, and other theaters. It contains some nudity and strong suggestions of violence.ĮNIGMA, directed by Jeannot Szwarc screen- play by John Briley, based on a novel by Michael Barak director of photography, Jean-Louis Picavet edited by Peter Weathersly produced by Peter Shaw, Ben Arbeid and Andre Perga- ment released by Embassy Pictures. ''Enigma'' is rated PG (''Parental Guidance Suggested''). Scenes take place amid a collection of religious art, in a grubby mental hospital and at a swimming pool. He has also set the film in as many attentiongetting locations as possible. Szwarc has kept the actors moving so fast that there is never the much-needed opportunity for them to think.

In his attempts to keep ''Enigma'' lively, Mr. Got that? Are you sure? In any case, the broadcaster (Martin Sheen) returns to East Berlin and is soon embroiled in all the intrigue that might be hoped for.

ENIGMA MOVIE CODE

He is recruited to return to East Berlin, carrying a microprocessor that can unscramble a Russian computer code and thwart a Russian scheme to assassinate five Soviet dissidents on Christmas Day. The plot, which is much too fast and furious, concerns an Americanborn radio broadcaster who has been living in Paris since his defection from East Germany (John Briley's screenplay tends to reel off this kind of detail much too quickly). He appears to be addressing the remark to her ankle. We're the good guys.'' As far as passion goes, this film tries to be so tough that the hero's chance to tell the heroine he loves her occurs when he is helping her put on a sock. ''Enigma,'' which opens at the Loews State and other theaters today, is also peppered with wise-guy dialogue, as when one team of spies tells a potential recruit: ''It's all right. The silhouette, he discovers, belongs to his own not especially treacherous gray suit. It is punctuated by crisp titles (indicating the date of each scene), played very close to the vest and riddled with false alarms -as when one character gets a good scare when his cat leaps out from beside the refrigerator, and another when he sees a shadowy shape behind his shower curtain. As directed by Jeannot Szwarc, best known for ''Jaws II'' and ''Somewhere in Time,'' this is the spy film at its most absurdly hard-boiled and at its most icily perfunctory. THERE are plenty of mysteries about ''Enigma'' but they aren't necessarily the ones the film makers intended.

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