Looking at all the amazing ratings and the remarkable knowledge only insiders would know about this film, it is disappointing to see that the IMDB has now become a terrible source for true film ratings.
Within the first 5 minutes of this film, it's clear that it's unfortunately an amateurish class project. There are some Indies which have done tremendous work but this one is just poorly constructed in so many ways and would have benefitted from screen testing with an actualudience.
The film opens with an awkwardly acted scene where a mother and daughter are discussing someone of whom the daughter is upset about for reasons unknown. As mom leaves the house to get into her car, daughter is reviewing some writing, notices something, and runs to the front of the house to warn mom -- but her car blows up in an awful CGI fashion and immediately we see daughter lying on the ground, practically out cold. I understand budget limitations but this was so poorly constructed as if you're saying "audience, cut us some slack!"
A man laughs in the distance and then enters the house in yet another awkward D-movie fashion moment lacking all continuity and suspense, and he's looking for someone in the house. Daughter is hiding and suspense scene of him looking is cut short quickly. Immediate cut to night time where daughter is sitting outside the house after this tragedy - as you'd expect after your mother was blown up in a car several hours earlier, LOL, with a notebook.... huh? On it, she then writes in big letters REVENGE!
This is nigh unwatchable and the fake reviews are as annoying. I'll give it an extra star for the effort. I'll give it an extra star for trying to make a film on the low budget but the real problem isn't the money. A courtroom scene in a courtroom has a witness is not only exceedingly dark, but doesn't even use the courtroom properly which anyone watching Law & Order could figure out. The overacting is atrocious. That scene cuts to the next in a restaurant which goes from bright lighting to, again, a very darkly lit scene. I'm not sure how nobody noticed this.
I'll describe the last scene 20 minutes in before I had to stop watching. It's supposedly the attorney speaking to a group of... thugs? Huh? Then one of them speaks up and wants to know if any of them should be taking orders from a guy with a "corny cartoon character's name". Who talks like this? The attempts to be funny and clever are so flat.
This is a great film to show young directors and producers the value of having an audience review your work and how budget constraints should not be used as an excuse for poorly constructed work that just doesn't convince an audience. Don't try to create a feature film unless you can at least do the simple stuff right.
Within the first 5 minutes of this film, it's clear that it's unfortunately an amateurish class project. There are some Indies which have done tremendous work but this one is just poorly constructed in so many ways and would have benefitted from screen testing with an actualudience.
The film opens with an awkwardly acted scene where a mother and daughter are discussing someone of whom the daughter is upset about for reasons unknown. As mom leaves the house to get into her car, daughter is reviewing some writing, notices something, and runs to the front of the house to warn mom -- but her car blows up in an awful CGI fashion and immediately we see daughter lying on the ground, practically out cold. I understand budget limitations but this was so poorly constructed as if you're saying "audience, cut us some slack!"
A man laughs in the distance and then enters the house in yet another awkward D-movie fashion moment lacking all continuity and suspense, and he's looking for someone in the house. Daughter is hiding and suspense scene of him looking is cut short quickly. Immediate cut to night time where daughter is sitting outside the house after this tragedy - as you'd expect after your mother was blown up in a car several hours earlier, LOL, with a notebook.... huh? On it, she then writes in big letters REVENGE!
This is nigh unwatchable and the fake reviews are as annoying. I'll give it an extra star for the effort. I'll give it an extra star for trying to make a film on the low budget but the real problem isn't the money. A courtroom scene in a courtroom has a witness is not only exceedingly dark, but doesn't even use the courtroom properly which anyone watching Law & Order could figure out. The overacting is atrocious. That scene cuts to the next in a restaurant which goes from bright lighting to, again, a very darkly lit scene. I'm not sure how nobody noticed this.
I'll describe the last scene 20 minutes in before I had to stop watching. It's supposedly the attorney speaking to a group of... thugs? Huh? Then one of them speaks up and wants to know if any of them should be taking orders from a guy with a "corny cartoon character's name". Who talks like this? The attempts to be funny and clever are so flat.
This is a great film to show young directors and producers the value of having an audience review your work and how budget constraints should not be used as an excuse for poorly constructed work that just doesn't convince an audience. Don't try to create a feature film unless you can at least do the simple stuff right.
