Awaiting something in the neighborhood of Breaking Dawn, I must admit I was disappointed. Not from Kellys acting, although she at times had some trouble too. But then, you can't lead the movie all by yourself. The rest was, I have to say, pathetic. The villain should focus on some expressive acting. I mean, where's a Malkovich when you need one, right? And I'm still trying to understand why somebody gave this movie a prize for editing, no offense. For instance, look at the scenes between Kelly and the bad girl (don't remember her name, doesn't matter) at the nice guys place. Mirror in the back, distracting, hit without blood (and the punch was dubbed close to a Rocky's cross, after all, it's a movie, we are talking hyper-reality here, people). Then the guy from behind chloroforming her (and that passing out was really bad, too, sorry Kelly). Can you see him in one scene, then not, then again? I mean, did any of the staff actually watch the movie after it was finished? And don't talk to me about budget, either. I think the Blairwitch Project went on an even lower budget, and it was freaky, followed by a sequel, and rocked the Hollyworld to a completely new movie experience level.
... View MoreFirst things first - first thing I noticed is Kelly Overton (Tyler) is a cute girl. The rest of the actors was nice, too. But the second thing is - I've seen little to no acting. Or - was it too much? Probably not. It was good enough for an amateur project full of amateurs picked up on the street, but please forgive me, this was really poor. Most of the time it reminded me the level of acting (and directing and cutting and screenplay etc...) of an endless Latin American soap opera. The action was half good. First half of the movie was OK. A girl in NY looking for her sis, finding clues one after another leading her to her goal. After her meeting with Clare (or during?) the script begun to loose sense. Would anyone with common sense act like Tyler in the movie? I doubt it, and since then the film kept losing it's drive. In fact the second part of it was boring, predictable, irrational, did not make any sense. I kept watching it until the credits just to be sure it was a complete waste of time. Sorry, beware.
... View MoreThe lead character, Tyler, has come to New York City after receiving a frantic call for help from her sister Jessica. Tyler arrives and encounters a small group of enigmatic people who seem bent on keeping Jessica isolated.Much of this movie is taken up by a chase sequence that doesn't make any sense. Without giving away too much plot, I'll just say that running around downtown Manhattan in broad daylight, with a working cell phone and hundreds of people everywhere, trying to "hide" from a few individuals trying to kill you, really doesn't make any sense. Dial 911, find a cop (which isn't difficult in that area), or just start shouting "help", and your problem is most likely solved. The sunlight and the many obvious methods of salvation seriously hindered any suspense or thrill potential the movie had built up to that point.The acting was usually (but not always) decent, especially on the part of the beautiful lead. The camera and sound work were also decent. The artsy editing style and focus effects got annoying at times, but it would be naive to go into a New York indie film without expecting such things.
... View MoreVery good movie with great actors. My first impression when the movie started was that it's gonna be a very bad and boring one but it turned out good. Although it's low budget, I enjoyed it a lot since it has a beautiful script. I'm giving it 8 stars because part of the story about Brian pretending to be the killer is not very clear to me. Rost said they needed one last thing "belief" but his need for this last element is not really clear to me. Am I missing something there? maybe. One thing that made this movie more interesting to me was the existence of "lies", nobody could be trusted at one point close to the end. The Producer could have made the Janitor play a little more part in the ending. I'll have to say it's a great movie with a perfect ending.
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