travis-a-greene

The kind of vibe I get from this director (I could be completely wrong) is that he is one of the well connected Hollywood types who uses his connections to get aging stars in stylistically flashy, but bad movies. This movie is a step in the right direction for him. There is a lot of cheesy dialogue and the plot devices are extremely obvious. Everything that is going to come up again later on in the movie you can see coming a mile away ***BUT*** the movie is visually very solid and it certainly creates a ton of anxiety. I think a lot of it is the very real fear many of us have of extreme heights like that, but regardless this movie graduates beyond being a Michael Bay knock off to a movie that has a relatively unique premise and actually makes you feel strong anxiety and fear. Solid work.

Dear Hollywood, never let this writer/director near a studio again. Generic, nonsensical, bad dialogue, dumb premise. Made me disinterested in Dinosaurs forever.

-Everyone.

I was really intrigued after the first episode as I thought we had the potential for an unreliable narrator. What transpires over the rest of the season was the same old story in the mold of most Tom Clancy-esque novel to movie adaptations. Innocent man plays fugitive killing everyone along the way to clear his name, uncover a conspiracy and bring vengeance to his family's killers. Even the attempt at a twist was predictable and lazy. Bummer. Will definitely appeal to the feaux-alpha-male-America loving crowd. Still watchable. Could've been a lot cooler had they used his loss of memory to make him an actual unreliable narrator who makes mistakes do to his loss of grip on reality. Instead he basically just has a bad headache the whole time.