Stars: Dávid Fecske, András Korcsmáros, Ágota Dunai, Dávid Kiss, Rob Oldfield, Marcsi Nagy, György Boldog | Written by Bálint Szántó | Directed by József Gallai
Spooky goings on in Hungary. Prompted by silly looking painting… Also, it is not spooky… The Whispering Man kicks off with an exceedingly long point of view (Pov) monologue with our protagonist making a vlog “chasing fear”, explaining the spooky family mystery involving a painting he is looking to explore and explain. Thereby the film sets out its stall early, this a Pov spook house flick!
One of the key problems is, at no point do we really get to know our character, or warm to him in any way. It has a lot of exposition that has little value. If you compare it to something like The Raid where we have about 10 seconds of getting to know our protagonist at the very beginning of the film,...
Spooky goings on in Hungary. Prompted by silly looking painting… Also, it is not spooky… The Whispering Man kicks off with an exceedingly long point of view (Pov) monologue with our protagonist making a vlog “chasing fear”, explaining the spooky family mystery involving a painting he is looking to explore and explain. Thereby the film sets out its stall early, this a Pov spook house flick!
One of the key problems is, at no point do we really get to know our character, or warm to him in any way. It has a lot of exposition that has little value. If you compare it to something like The Raid where we have about 10 seconds of getting to know our protagonist at the very beginning of the film,...
- 6/24/2020
- by Chris Thomas
- Nerdly
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