The Scribbler

I've read the Graphic Novel and watched this movie and both are poorly done despite having great potential. The movie suffers mainly from sparse, unnatural dialog that is also excruciatingly uninteresting plus an almost total lack of a thematic audio track; worse still, much of the dialog is annoyingly echoey. As far as the acting goes, the main character never makes herself believable as a crazy person; Eliza Dushku, as much as I loved her as Faith in Buffy, was totally miscast as a no-nonsense medical professional in this movie; Gina Gershon was entirely underutilized. Overall, I'd like to see this movie picked up by a better production team and made into the great movie it could be. Its main strength was its presentation of the disassociative personality disorder of the main character and her descent into madness and insanity. As it stands right now, I'd recommend the Graphic Novel over the movie mainly because it will take a lot less of your time.

This movie definitely has some stuff going for it, but for my tastes it's a little too strange. I'm a guy that doesn't like strangeness in his movies, that much, but if you're the type that does, maybe you'll enjoy it more than I did.

There are some cool characters. The acting is alright. There's a lot of "crazyness". There are some action sequences, unfortunately they aren't as cool as they should have been. The effects are OK. We're not talking sky high budgets here, but it looks alright.

All in all it was just a little too tiring for me. Based on a graphic novel, maybe it also works best as just that.

Another picture that had way more potential than its final product. When a young woman with dissociative identity disorder is brought to some kind of madhouse, people start killing themselves for no apparent reason. With a bunch of eccentric characters and a visual style that provokes Sin City comparisons, this comic book adaptation will certainly entertain people and capture their attention till the last minute. Unfortunately it all feels a bit rushed, bloated and shallow. With b-listers like Garret Dillahunt, Gina Gershon, Kunal Nayyar, Billy Campbell and Richard Riehle, this movie has some fun acting and prevents from feeling amateuristic, but in the end it's just too much a "been there, seen that" movie...

Suki (Katie Cassidy) is being interviewed by Criminal Psychologist Jennifer Silk (Eliza Dushku) and Police Detective Moss (Michael Imperioli). She recounts the events at Juniper Tower, an apartment building and halfway house for released mental patients. She suffers from multiple personalities and using The Siamese Burn to burn out the extra personalities. She reconnects with Hogan (Garret Dillahunt) who is sleeping with almost every beautiful lady in the building. Soon, these girls are dying from apparent suicides.

This world is surreal to the point of unreal. It's intriguing and unique, but I can't get over the unrealism of the premise. Whether it's Suki or the craziness of the world, it does come off as messy story telling. Although all of it can be excused as a way to inhabit the madness of the characters' minds. I'm with this movie until it loses me somewhat around the middle. I would like to keep some of these ideas and make the rest cleaner.

I quite liked this. I think it could have done more with its premise, but as it is, it's pretty visually stunning and the performances are quite good. I've never thought Katie Cassidy had real talent, but she does some fine work here, always elevating the material when it needs it and providing a good contrast to the other roles she's played in the past. Dillahunt is a joy to watch, like always, and probably the MVP supporting player of the film. It's nice to see so many of these TV actors in roles in this (Buffy's Eliza Dushku and Michelle Trachtenberg, as well as The Sopranos' Michael Imperiori). I do recommend this, even if I get that it's pretty problematic