This is the movie obviously made in the vein of an Alejandro González
Iñárritu movie or a movie like "Crash" if you will. Problem however is
that it's clearly a less clever or well written version of a Alejandro
González Iñárritu movie, made with far less talented people involved as
well.
There is plenty wrong with this movie and its story and way of
storytelling, so I don't even know where to begin really. But I do
believe that the biggest problem is not even necessarily with its story
but lies more with its characters. There is not one likely enough
character in this movie, that you could ever start to care for. It's
also because none of them ever get developed properly enough but also
because most of them simply don't do anything likable at all in this
movie. You just don't feel any sympathy or involved with any of them,
which makes this a very distant movie to watch already.
And no, it clearly doesn't help that the characters aren't played by
the most talented actors. It actually shows how these type of movies
can really benefit from a strong, all-star cast and how terribly
uninteresting these sort of movies can work out, without an impressive
cast.
But there is also clearly plenty wrong with the story itself. It's just
not connected very well or cleverly all. It doesn't feel organic in any
way, which is also partly due to some poor dialog. It's all too forced
and unlikely and not everything comes together very well, which also
results in a pretty abrupt and unsatisfying ending.
Also the constant switching around between 'past' and 'present' events
in the movie is not balanced out too well. With this storytelling
technique the two things should strengthen each other and add to the
movie its tension or mystery but in this case it only mostly works out
as redundant and even somewhat annoying. It sometimes spend too much
time in the 'present' while not showing enough the events that led up
to the movie its 'conflict', which already is a pretty ridicules,
unlikely and poorly handled conflict to begin with. Some of the choices
that some of the characters make in this movie just aren't very likely
at all, which makes you feel even less involved with all of it.
And yes, I'm probably still being too kind about this movie with my
rating. I don't completely trash it because it's a smaller movie, with
a small budget and with all some very average people involved. Still
it's not really worth seeing, though at the same time it's also far
from the worst thing you'll ever see.
5/10
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