5 reviews
Oh man, I really can't say enough bad things about the music in this film. It was just so horrible that I had to stop watching, with only twenty minutes left. I bet you think that I'm overreacting, but it was truly a grueling experience for me. Whatever genre that was, it is clearly my biggest weakness, and if I ever become a masked crimefighter, it will stop me in my tracks faster than a bullet. It was like some watered-down, generic version of Hootie & the Blowfish. Let that just wash over you. The horror of this experience dwarfed any emotional response that the movie could have elicited, and I find myself almost completely incapable of discussing anything *but* the soundtrack. I'm really sorry for going on about this, but I think this is cheaper and more therapeutic than psychotherapy.
Besides the musical torture, I remember being somewhat confused by the plot, because it didn't really make all that much sense to me. The best part was how the psychopath apologized for being a noob, because this was his first kidnapping plot. Ha. That's definitely not something you see every day. All in all, not the worst movie I've seen, but it was a confusing jumble of flashbacks and weak acting, with music that drove me insane! I do give the director/writer/star some credit for an ambitious project, though. As silly as it sounds, I think I might have liked this movie a lot more, if it hadn't been for the music.
Besides the musical torture, I remember being somewhat confused by the plot, because it didn't really make all that much sense to me. The best part was how the psychopath apologized for being a noob, because this was his first kidnapping plot. Ha. That's definitely not something you see every day. All in all, not the worst movie I've seen, but it was a confusing jumble of flashbacks and weak acting, with music that drove me insane! I do give the director/writer/star some credit for an ambitious project, though. As silly as it sounds, I think I might have liked this movie a lot more, if it hadn't been for the music.
The premise of this movie is that the husband and wife characters are trapped and forced to solve a puzzle to save their own lives. The problems with this movie are: Bad script, even worse actors, and a very nasty looking production. It tries really hard to copy the Saw movies but the result is like taking NightQuil. The villain has a fake Jigsaw voice but doesn't offer any real gore or fright. Basically this movie is psychological torture of the audience if anyone managed to stay awake. The ending felt like the writer struggled to end a story without plot--It piled on more nonsensical story line to justify the awful experience the audience just endured.
- sodominican
- Apr 5, 2010
- Permalink
Absolutely awful, even for background when cleaning house. After I read that the writer, director, Falcon, doesn't read, I understood why he misspelled tomorrow on the mirror. Also the grammar made me recoil, "you were wanting to" do whatever, the scene with the bank teller and the wife. Story made no sense. I gave up trying to make sense of nonsense. Music was annoying and irrelevant. I fast forwarded to the end.
Life is too short.