Body Cam

The film starts out with an interesting enough story albeit with a cliche attempt at biased social commentary. The creepiness and tension is effective early on, but as everything starts coming together it became very predictable. The ending is completely ludicrous and unrealistic and throws the entire film off the rails in ridiculousness. While I will give the film's visual ambitions with creative photography and the decent effects some credit, I can't help but say this was a mediocre film overall. The acting was also fairly mediocre and I never really could take the characters seriously. Another case of a revenge thriller/horror where the social undertones are way too heavy handed to the point where the realism is thrown out the window to fit the director's biased vision.

You know, one of that older X-files episodes where the viewer quickly catches what is going on and in the best X-files way the viewer's thoughts are projected through Mulder's believer's intuition. You're just waiting for him to deliver his version of what happened and you know you will agree with him. It really is very close structurally to S1, Ep 6 "Shadows".

Here it takes them an hour and a half to get us to the actual resolution even though everything is very predictable. So you're just waiting for 30 minutes of filler "detective work" and "fresh twists" to end so you can watch the anticlimactic ending you saw 30 minutes ago.

I gave it a 5/10 only for the kinda funny heavy-handed social commentary they tried to shove in, I'm still not sure either it was very smart or kinda sarcastically stupid.

Just pass on this one.

P.S. I'm not sure why the ending is delivered like a happy end when there are obviously heavy consequences waiting for the main lead, she will surely lose her job and probably get institutionalized after delivering her statement (I mean, who is going to believe that?).

I had no idea what this film was about when I started watching, but as the story unfurled I began to enjoy it. The acting isn't fantastic, and sadly Mary J Blige in the lead role was one of the weakest performances in the film.

Also sometimes the pace of movement was very deliberate instead of normal and this dissipated the air of unease that they were trying to build up.

The score was ok, it could have been great, but was also underpaced.

All in all I enjoyed watching it, for the decent scenes, good cinematography and good story. But I placed it at a 4 because the acting let it down as did small parts of the dialogue.

I think this non pretentious B-horror movie is quite good. If you loved movies like Mothman prophecies and Black and Blue this one is for you. As a B-movie horror fan, I have to say this one has the usual flaws like the script and acting, but on the other hand the execution of the story is pretty well done and some murder scenes are A+. Also, FX's are pretty decent. So, overall good entertainment during the quarentine if you're looking for some decent horror cop thriller.

The only scary thing in this film is it's timing, given the current deep unrest around police brutality, but that's it. The acting is very stale, in particular mary blige. At one point she sees an horrific scene, and whilst her rookie partner is throwing up because of it, Mary stands there looking mildly dissappointed as if she's been told McDonald's don't have the flavour mcflurry she wanted. It's permanently night time where they live as well, and very few people seemed alarmed that lots of people of their workforce are being slaughtered. It could have made a big impact but sadly it's a paint by numbers "horror" that brings little of anything new to the table