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Bleed (2016)
You'll Bleed when You Watch This
A low budget cliché that makes your time and eyes "Bleed" when you watch this. From the start - a lot of time "wasted" to set up the story (so first half is very slow). Second half miserably fails to provides any kind of entertainment and fails to engage (you) as a viewer. At the end you, as a viewer, will certainly feel robbed of your time and money...
Story is quite straight forward - A couple moves to a lonely place and invite some friends and after boring you to limits, they plan to visit an abandoned-prison to experience ghosts. Second part may sound exciting but the execution/filming of this particular part is - utterly unpleasant and without logics. Below average acting by most of the actors marred remaining expectations (to entertain).
My words may have not explained the 'shoddiness' of this movie well but I have wasted another 20 minutes just to make others aware to save their time. Hope this review saves some time of others...
The Maze Runner (2014)
Doesn't Deliver as Promises
My mistake - had a huge expectation from this movie. This movie appeared promising with promos and trailers but doesn't deliver.
Yeah, start (initial few minutes) depicts as if it is going to be entertaining, going to deliver... but then it slips, gets lame, fall flat on its face and inhumes viewers along to the abysmal trench, where everybody is lost. Least, I can talk about myself.
After those initial minutes, rest of this movie are completely illogical and waste of time..
Doesn't live up to the expectation. Try to avoid if are not lured as I was..
Prisoners (2013)
Many Loopholes but Awesome Actings & Cinematography
After watching this movie and then gone through the reviews-section (because I wanted to write one, (that would be my first one as well)), I was utterly convinced with whatever "law-turley" (An IMDb User) wrote, and I entirely borrowed the contents from him/her. Here is how, slightly modified review goes from my side: The first 30 minutes or so of the movie were really promising. I liked the set-up of the 2 cozy families in their suburban idyll sharing a thanksgiving meal and discovering, to their horror, their kids had somehow gone missing. That part felt very real, very "based on a true story". As the film went on though, the clunky writing and flabby storytelling started to show its effects.
#1. My first big problem came with the utterly implausible discovery of the body in the pedophile priest's basement. First of all, Gyllenhaal's decision to move the freezer based on the flex being dangerously stretched, just seemed...dumb. Why would he care if the guy stretches his flex? It didn't seem from his reaction ("drunks!") that he thought the freezer was hiding something, and yet he opts to shove the big heavy thing closer to the socket because presumably it bothers him. Then - whoa - there's a door there, and whoa it's a big cellar (which is not that weird really), and now - whoa - look a body! #2. And next came a great big WHY? He's a pedophile catholic priest so why was he SO outraged that a man might kill kids. He abuses children but is still so horrified by a killer that he opts to kill the guy who's (again...utterly improbably) has come to him for confession, but not so horrified that he tells ANYONE the guy's story? Or attempts to find out if it's true before he offs him? Instead he just stuffs the body in the basement and drinks a lot. Hmm!!! #3. My next problem was the biggest and clumsiest of the plot points. Gyllenhaal finds a body and hears a weird-ass tale about child murders (and presumably there's a not a lot of those locally), but despite his incredible intellect and ability to make connections, he doesn't spot the REALLY ODD MAZE NECKLACE on the body until the drawing falls conveniently from his desk alongside it, and make the connection between the two.
#4. Why is escaped and presumably traumatized kidnap victim Bob stealing children's clothes, covering them in pig's blood and putting them in boxes full of snakes? It would make sense if he was somehow part of the cover-up, or working for Alex's aunt, but he's not. So for some reason known only to himself he's stealing clothes and making it seem like Anna and Joy are dead when they're not. Presumably because he's traumatized. Or just mental. But either way, it's not really explained, it's just a great big red herring that confuses everything.
#5. What is the significance of Keller's dad's suicide? Because if there is no significance, why show Loki reading about it as if it's important? Presumably (again) it's so he can find out that the building that Keller's going to is where his dad died - but so what? Why is it important, other than to cloud the waters and confuse the audience even more. Was Keller connected to his father's suicide, why was no note found...all questions we have no need to ask.
#6. WTF is this all maze rubbish? Right from the poster we're led to expect some kind of maze to appear. The serial killer wears a necklace with a maze on it, Alex says "they're in the maze", Bob is obsessed with drawing mazes, so where's the freaking maze man? When Holly gets Keller to back the car up we think "FINALLY! HERE'S THE MAZE!!! But there's no maze down there, just a big deep hole full of old sneakers and dead snakes. No maze, not even a sniff of one. The only maze-related thing as it turns out, is a puzzle book that Leo forces the kids to do while they're kidnapped, presumably traumatizing them with their inability to solve simple puzzles. It might just as well have been Sudoku really, but that might have looked weird on a necklace...
#7. And finally, the pointless sub-plot. Just WHAT is the purpose and meaning behind Keller's kidnap and torture of Alex? It has no real purpose other than to provide a weirdly amoral counterpoint to the other story (which would have been so much better emphasized if we'd seen anything of the girls' captivity), and leaves us confused and kind of weirdly angry with the guy. Alex is an innocent child and Keller has tortured him almost to death, so what does that make him? A villain? An anti-hero? A misguided vigilante? No-one seems to care if we know, so we end up drawing no conclusion at all and Keller ends up as a shapeless figure that we ultimately care little about.
#8. Despite all aforementioned loop-holes, The END comes abrupt and it starts reeling credits all of a sudden. This point was the obvious limit of tolerance to leave the audience bewildered.
Ultimately my feeling was that this could have been a "good" film, if only someone had applied due experience and a keen eye had been brought in to work on the script and iron out the many (mentioned) flaws. The cinematography and the score was great, and it's a testament to the director and actors (TRULY, I give them credit) that the movie was still highly watchable despite the glaring plot holes and confusing storytelling, but on the whole it was a disappointing and lacking experience and not one I'd highly recommend...