In Isolation

Personally, I'll choose subtitles over dubbing every time. I adore the westerns directed by Sergio Leone, which are now over half a century old. Somehow, the dubbing for the dialogue in those films is more competent than this recently produced current day film. The simulated interaural intensity (loudness and frequency) and interaural time difference (arrival time) experienced when receiving audio stimuli with both ears is way off for this movie, especially the dialogue.

It's obvious the actors are delivering lines to a stationary microphone. Your eyes tell you the characters are moving around in their environment, but your ears tell you they haven't moved. Also, the intensity (perceived loudness) and direction of the dialogue doesn't change with camera positioning (editing) or voice projection in relation to the actors and the camera (turning away from the camera). It's really disorienting and distracting. The sound mixing and audio post production is woefully incompetent. All the dialogue was mixed to be mono, with only a few exceptions of stereo sound being used. Which means they didn't even try in post.

I know I haven't even covered any other aspect of the film is this review, besides the dialogue audio. That's because, this isn't an issue most films have, even low budget productions. I made it just over 20 minutes into the run-time before I stopped watching. Something very unbelievable happens just after the 20 minute mark, and no one in the scene reacts like a human being. Everything about the scene indicates utter incompetence, from the writing, directing, acting, audio, etcetera. That's when this movie confirmed that its issues went far beyond ADR dialogue, and it was only going to get worse.

Usually, I wouldn't score and review a movie I haven't watched to the end. Since this movie currently has no reviews on the site, I felt obligated to inform others about their potential wasted investment of time if they decide to watch it.

This movie was such a waste of time. They clearly filmed this and then re-recorded the audio after and dubbed it over themselves. This makes an already awkward script even more awkward. Weird conversations, that due to the dubbing, have no emotion.

It's really hard to tell due to this if the actors are actually any good at all, or if it's just because it was dubbed over.

Unlikeable characters, weird editing and a predictable and boring story make for 2 hours of... well frankly of confusion.

And the ending... NO just NO. Waste of time. Don't watch this unless you want a good laugh at how bad this is.

The bad: a "thriller" that doesnt thrill. Not one bit. What do I need say more? The whole point of a "thriller" is that I get excited, that I live in great anxiety of what is gonna happen, that I am shocked. None of that.

Not any good? It aint a terrible movie, but I would categorize "In Isolation" as a tv movie, with below average tv movie actors, with a below average script and with below average technical details, like photography and sound.

In Isolation is just going through the motions. I wonder who this movie could best be suited for and I kinda veer to the tv soap audience, because the casual tv soap viewer doesnt mind below average quality at all, they just wanna see a mildly entertaining story.

I was occupied with cleaning while I could hear the dialogue and I felt like I was watching Money Heist. Just an unbelievable horrendous piece of dog trash. Lol I watched the trailer and they made t seem like it would be good. Maybe because I didn't hear a word spoke lol Please....do not watch. If I can ever recommend a movie that no one should watch this would have to be it. There is absolutely NOTHING appealing about this. I still have it on in the background whilst writing this review. That's how much I don't care about this movie. It doesn't even seem like the actors are using there actual voices.

If Hallmark decided to make action/thriller movies: It would look better than this.

I found the poor sound quality very annoying from the first sentences on. It obviously didn't get better. Maybe if I had watched the movie with headphones I would get a better audio, but as it was, it was a complete turn off.

The cinematography was really weak too. Add to it poor scenery.

The story was not even slightly interesting plus meaningless dialogues on top. You'll spend the whole story screaming at the movie about how no adult would talk or act like that.

All in all a waste of time. I didn't have high expectations, but I think you can create a better movie than this with little resources.