Joe_Rog
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I saw the trailer for this movie last night on Youtube and thought it looked intriguing. I hadn't seen Buried or Brake for a long time and after watching the trailer, it got me in the mood for a claustrophobic-feeling-thriller movie!
The trailer gives you the premise of a girl locked in a cage and being tormented via her mobile phone. But there is some exposition given at the beginning and through her phone calls during the movie to explain why she is there.
The story goes: the protagonist works at a sex chat phone company and one of her clients has become too attached to her and is the reason for her being locked in the cage.
Throughout the film we discover she has had a tough life with her child being put up for adoption and her father suffering from a weak heart. So she is a bit of a disheartened person and isn't known for being reliable by her family and partner.
She's a bit of an unlikeable and unsympathetic character as she tends to just scream down the phone at her captor and make demands in a '16-year-old-princess' type of way. But this was the only downside acting/script wise.
There is a slight twist in the movie half way through which I'm still not sure is clever or not. It certainly made me feel more anxious after everything that had been unravelled up to that point as it makes her situation much worse than it was before.
As annoying as the protagonist is, the movie did suck me in. However there were a few movie clichés which made me almost exclaim out loud at the screen and also encouraged my anger towards the lead character!
I felt the ending could have been avoided if she'd have made a few extra calls on her mobile (which by the way was a Nokia 3210). Which was interesting as most modern thriller/horrors these days play on the fact electronic devices run out of battery and cause the situation to worsen. But I thought they'd have trouble with that phone as it's so DAMNED RELIABLE!
All in all, it was a good thriller and got the heart pumping but in the end I would rather watch Buried as it has better twists and i think is the best movie for this kind of scenario!
The trailer gives you the premise of a girl locked in a cage and being tormented via her mobile phone. But there is some exposition given at the beginning and through her phone calls during the movie to explain why she is there.
The story goes: the protagonist works at a sex chat phone company and one of her clients has become too attached to her and is the reason for her being locked in the cage.
Throughout the film we discover she has had a tough life with her child being put up for adoption and her father suffering from a weak heart. So she is a bit of a disheartened person and isn't known for being reliable by her family and partner.
She's a bit of an unlikeable and unsympathetic character as she tends to just scream down the phone at her captor and make demands in a '16-year-old-princess' type of way. But this was the only downside acting/script wise.
There is a slight twist in the movie half way through which I'm still not sure is clever or not. It certainly made me feel more anxious after everything that had been unravelled up to that point as it makes her situation much worse than it was before.
As annoying as the protagonist is, the movie did suck me in. However there were a few movie clichés which made me almost exclaim out loud at the screen and also encouraged my anger towards the lead character!
I felt the ending could have been avoided if she'd have made a few extra calls on her mobile (which by the way was a Nokia 3210). Which was interesting as most modern thriller/horrors these days play on the fact electronic devices run out of battery and cause the situation to worsen. But I thought they'd have trouble with that phone as it's so DAMNED RELIABLE!
All in all, it was a good thriller and got the heart pumping but in the end I would rather watch Buried as it has better twists and i think is the best movie for this kind of scenario!
The premise is about a family of writers, a father, daughter and son dealing with love over the course of a year. The father is a divorcee and still has conflicting feelings for his ex-wife who he has been apart from for 3 years. It's a story about finding love and holding onto it, i guess another theme could be to not rush head on into love for fear of getting hurt and doing this by learning from personal experience (for instance the daughter and son learning from their parents).
This film has an amazing cast (amazing as in great performances, it's not exactly an A-list cast which i think would ruin it due to the genre of the film) and uses the actors to the absolute best of it's abilities.
One of the best performances in this movie is probably Greg Kinnear as he strikes the balance between a good and a bad father through no fault of his own as he's caught up in the complexities of his own love life. Which is another great thing about this film, as the children are supposed to be between 17-19 years old, they actually go through the same problems as the adults, thus making everyone in this film equal and shows that no matter who you are or what you're background is, everyone gets hurt by love, and more or less everyone reacts the same.
If I had one problem with this film it's that it could have been about 20-30 minutes longer as it's one of those films where you want to know more back story of the characters, particularly Greg Kinnear's.
But as I say, this film couldn't have used the actors better for this genre. To compliment the acting and great story the soundtrack is one of the best I've heard for a long time. The first track we hear is "Home - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros" which is an amazing, comforting, happy, melancholic song in of itself, but it opens the film with a huge bang of presumptions that enter your mind of where this film could lead you.
It leads you exactly where you want it to.
There will be some things I've left out purposefully as I hate any reviews or trailers that just show you all the best bits and you go to see the movie and find that they really were the ONLY good bits. So watch the movie and enjoy it for what it is!
This film has an amazing cast (amazing as in great performances, it's not exactly an A-list cast which i think would ruin it due to the genre of the film) and uses the actors to the absolute best of it's abilities.
One of the best performances in this movie is probably Greg Kinnear as he strikes the balance between a good and a bad father through no fault of his own as he's caught up in the complexities of his own love life. Which is another great thing about this film, as the children are supposed to be between 17-19 years old, they actually go through the same problems as the adults, thus making everyone in this film equal and shows that no matter who you are or what you're background is, everyone gets hurt by love, and more or less everyone reacts the same.
If I had one problem with this film it's that it could have been about 20-30 minutes longer as it's one of those films where you want to know more back story of the characters, particularly Greg Kinnear's.
But as I say, this film couldn't have used the actors better for this genre. To compliment the acting and great story the soundtrack is one of the best I've heard for a long time. The first track we hear is "Home - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros" which is an amazing, comforting, happy, melancholic song in of itself, but it opens the film with a huge bang of presumptions that enter your mind of where this film could lead you.
It leads you exactly where you want it to.
There will be some things I've left out purposefully as I hate any reviews or trailers that just show you all the best bits and you go to see the movie and find that they really were the ONLY good bits. So watch the movie and enjoy it for what it is!
