The Case of: Dakota Moore (2021) Poster

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4/10
Too long and drawn out for 1 hour 18 minute movie
jenniferss-441148 December 2023
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Interesting premise but gets bogged down by clunky dialogue and long drawn out scenes that go no where. It takes too long to get to the meat of the story, but also has no clear resolution. It almost feels like the first movie of a continuing story.

The actress playing Dakota came off very natural. You could buy that she was a vlogger who was used to being in front of the camera. She was the best actor out of the bunch.

The others were okay. The worst was the news anchor, though. He had a slow, drawn out way of speaking that made it seem like he was constantly either trying to remember his lines or trying to figure out how he wanted to act in the scene. And it seemed like the majority of his acting choices were "give every line of dialogue a creepy undertone" for some reason.

Ultimately it's not a bad movie. It has a lot of promise but a disappointing follow-through.
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Cool idea... for a short
DanTheButler15 December 2022
Really wanted to like this one but it was 80 minutes of poop. Edited like a Netflix doc, this plays out much like watching a student film in high school. Amy and Altin were the standouts for performance but the pacing of the film was hell to sit through. Nothing even remotely interesting happens until after the 60 minute mark, and even then I was lost due to poor dialogue audio and the story lacking clarity. I think this film could've benefited from lower third comments on the screen (since Dakota is a vlogger), less found footage and more re-enactments for the sake of visuals, security camera footage that you can tell what's happening and it actually adds to the storytelling, and running it through the process of ADR at parts, especially the interviews which audio levels are all over the place (perhaps even reshoots with proper sound equipment). Tubi calls this drama thriller and there was nothing dramatic or thrilling about it. The only subgenres this fits into is mockumentary and found footage.
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