Sharp Corner

The mild-mannered "Josh" (Ben Foster), his wife "Rachel" (Cobie Smulders) and their son "Max" (William Kosovic) have a brand new home and are looking forward to settling in when there is a car accident outside and a tyre comes a-bouncing through their window at a seriously inopportune moment! Needless to say they are a bit flustered and she thinks maybe they ought to move. Well when it happens again, you'd think that'd be a bit of a no-brainer but he is somehow captivated. Not by the accidents, but by the time it takes the emergency services to arrive, and so he decides to do some training to be able to help out. Of course, his wife and young son are perplexed by his increasingly odd behaviour, as is his boss, and so there's soon a lot on the line for the man. I enjoyed the start of this, and I thought this might be Foster's best performance, but after about half an hour it became a rather joyless exhibition of obsessiveness and selfishness topped off by a truly far-fetched, though sometimes darkly comedic, desire to do good. Smulders does fine, but only features sparingly - which is just as well for given her character is supposed to be a couples therapist, "Rachel" shows a complete lack of appreciation of her husband's trauma and of their son's needs that is ultimately annoyingly breathtaking. Sadly, the initially good idea just turns into a series of overly contrived bad decisions stitched together with an implausible series of incidents that rushed through some universally unlikeable and undercooked characterisations and left me wanting more - or less. Sorry.

I liked the story and the trailer. A family man moves to a new suspicious house with his wife and child. They seem to be going through problems and trying to adapt. The father discovers that the road in front of the house has a problem that causes accidents and he starts to obsess over it. His obsession gradually turns into a pathological desire to be the hero and savior, but circumstances are not suitable for him. The cinematography is excellent, it conveyed the idea to the viewer, but the accident scenes are of poor quality. The performance of the actors is great, you get to enjoy them and feel their emotions, especially the father. The ending of the movie is open and gives the feeling that you don't understand why what happened happened. I think I like a closed ending or at least a clear message being conveyed, which is something I didn't feel in this movie. Thanks to everyone.

I love a good slow burn movie ... this was very well acted .. but unfortunately the payoff wasn't worth the burn 😕 very predictable .. I was hoping for a grand payoff at the ending ..sorry to say it was just ho-hum .. Ben Foster's proformance is the only thing that saves the movie and makes it watchable.

Dramatic thriller "Sharp Corner" charts the descent of average family guy Ben Foster (fine actor) from hating his job, thru leaning on booze, to sheer insanity via the titular accident blackspot outside the new home he's bought with wife Cobie Smulders and their young son. As cars repeatedly crash, and folk die, on his front yard, Foster becomes obsessed with the victims and on prepping to 'help' future ones, rather than preventing them and/or addressing his family's trauma. Writer / director Jason Buxton's second film is original, clever, well performed - tho also slow & implausible at times, with an ending that'll irk some. That said, generally, it's a good film.

This was waaayyyy too long. It would've been better as a short film, not the 110 min runtime that felt like four hours. It just dragged on and on with the same exact premise and predictable outcomes. When you're a salesman but was born a first responder. Ya, we get it.

And as a fan of Ben Foster, not sure why all the critics are praising his performance (or the film for that matter)... it was flaccid and any actor - even inexperienced, could've pulled off his character and stale demeanor.

It's a generous 5/10, mostly all going to the smoking hot Cobie Smulders for her excellent and convincing performance.