Zenith is a low budget trite paranoid conspiracy thriller.

Set in a 2044 Dystopian society where people are genetically engineered to be happy. Dumb Jack (Peter Scanavino) is the son of a priest and prostitute.

He is a former doctor who deals in drugs that make people feel pain. He is hunting for lost videotapes to prove his father theories about a secret society that rules the world.

A conspiracy that might give an answer to the state of the current world Jack is in.

He is accompanied by mute loyal friend Nimble and later has an affair with an exotic dancer called Lisa.

The movie is a mixed bag peddling all sorts of conspiracy theories. It is seedy, grimy at times. There is violence, a few twists and a constant dreary narration. Scanavino does what he can with the material.

There are better films out there that can do this type of conspiracy thrillers.

Tedious but competent portrayal of how delusional disorders progress. First you think you own some precious monopoly on words, so every innocuous appearance of words in your boring day-to-day existence becomes a "clue" that you are part of something grand & meaningful; then you think you're some messiah/martyr/savior of humanity, sent to decode the divine message and "wake up" the masses. Then every car behind you on the road is "following" you, and when they turn off in different directions, instead of being evidence that they weren't following you, it becomes evidence that they just stopped following you because you "spotted" them. Every event becomes evidence of the conspiracy, even lack of evidence. Evidence that your father held the same delusions is not evidence of a hereditary schizophrenic disorder, but proof that he also "cracked the code of the conspiracy". He didn't abandon you; shadowy forces made him disappear because he "knew too much". The fact that the "reveal" at the end of the film revealed nothing but evidence of his continuing psychosis was a nice touch.

Verdict: Conspiracies definitely exist, but if you think they are ever as simplistic as this story, you're probably just delusional.

This is the sort of analogies, the new metaphors, the "world has already ended, and we're just catching up with it" William Gibson-esque view of things we need to sort things out. If you haven't heard Nine Inch Nails' "Year Zero" and have never picked up "Adbusters," you might be surprised that people have been directing cultural impulses to address the situation (set(s)) we find ourselves in -- but then, you might be awed by the "complexity" of Marvel and think that vague passing references to overpopulation and toxic overfill qualify as addressing the capitalistic addition we've all been raised in. Forget that.