24 Exposures

"24 Exposures" is a boring, pointless waste of time. It's so bad that I have started to write this review with still about ten minutes of run-time left. I don't want to waste any more time on this movie.

Mumblecore generally feels pretty pointless. I loved some of the "mumblegore" flicks, though, like "Baghead" and "Cheap Thrills". Those were great.

But "24 Exposures" and "A Horrible Way to Die" have all the bad things about this subgenre, and none of the good. They're so unfocused as to be tedious. Suspense requires a sure hand at the wheel. It has to be built carefully. These things barely qualify as movies, they're so slapdash and haphazardly put together.

It's weird how much nudity there is in "24 Exposures". Some nudity makes sense as the movie is "about" (not the right word) a guy who takes pornographic photos of women who have been made up to appear dead. But it feels like every scene has a woman showing her breasts.

This isn't Andy Sidaris or Russ Meyer, though. It's a low budget indie flick, so the women are pretty average looking. And the nudity becomes distracting. You would wonder why they put so much of it in, if not for the fact that very little in the movie seems to have been done deliberately, so underwrought it is, so maybe it just kind of happened that way. Maybe they didn't even plan it. Who knows?

It's tempting to say that "24 Exposures" is "mercifully brief" at only one hour and seventeen minutes. But that run-time just feels so much longer than it is. Instead I would recommend you have mercy on yourself and skip "24 Exposures" entirely. It's for mumblecore fetishists only.