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Strangely disconnected direction on top of adequate acting and great scenery. DOP work is a slight cut above indie-normal.

You can't be shy about critiquing Indie productions-if you are, they'll never get any better. Neither can you give it a 'pass' because it's an Indie production. I see low-budget SF Indie Shorts on Dust and YouTube that blow this film away and just can't understand how that happens. Regardless, in this film they have all the needed, mostly good, constituent parts, yet the effort is hollow like a scarecrow.

They have a good DOP and machinery, great scenery that really works for the storyline, fairly decent acting talent, and obviously enough of a budget to print it. So what's wrong?

The writing. The writing is just terrible. Just about everything one can critique about a screenplay is there in spades--the gaping plot holes and the tiresome, uninspired dialog are gut-wrenchingly disappointing when you consider all the plusses they have going for them.

The Directing. Can anyone reveal what it is that the Director was after here? What was he up to? His beat-by-beat goals? Was he trying to work around the script?

Whatever. Such a waste.

I saw the first one--I was relatively entertained during a snow-in. but this?

There must be hundreds of good writers, directors and actors out there that deserve jobs--these people obviously do not.

Sad--do yourself a BIG favor and avoid this needless, embarrassing pain.