Blackout starts out with a few promising scenes. A man with a good job, a hot girlfriend, and a nice apartment finds himself a body at his place, with no recollection of how it got there.
The script is well-paced throughout, with just the right touch of suspense and mystery. Although some of the camera work made me think that it was a low-budget independent film, I am pleased with how the film progressed. The character development is fairly believable and the reactions from the protagonists are understandable.
I think the movie, however, sells itself a bit short. Some of the side plot scenes are not fully developed, and the last few minutes made me really question the editing choice. What started to feel like a well-paced mystery/thriller/crime movie quickly spiraled into a Hollywood-style twist-based ending, where the "who" became so much more important than "why." The writing becomes so inconsistent in these final moments that I feel like someone else was hired to chop the last few scenes out and replace it with a quick story that I think we've all probably seen before. Mostly, it didn't really make sense, and my suspension of disbelief crumbled into a million pieces.
There was also the very last few seconds before the credits rolled that I did not understand at all.
However, Black Out is still a fun movie to watch. Just don't expect a radically evolutionary film.
