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a really interesting psychological thriller with Even Stevens and Kim from The Bourne Supremacy (ok ok enough)
Kind of on a whim I decided I was interested enough to go ahead and see this movie at 12:15am last night. I left surprising satisfied and interestingly paranoid. As I got in my car I half hoped and half feared the car to start talking to me and telling me where to go. Either way the movie at very least kept your attention (which is a hard task in the film world...well maybe not in America). You were never really in a state of like "whats going on?" you were more like "whats going to happen next!?" which to me is more exciting but not exactly less interesting.
There were quite a few collaborators on the writing of the screenplay but the original story was written by Dan McDermott whom had a brief running of a TV series (1 season) in 2006 called "Angela's Eyes" (cute) There was an episode called The Camera's Eye...I didn't see it (or any of this series for that matter) but I can assume this guy's either got a thing with voyeurism or is completely paranoid...just sayin...
The film opens on a poker game between some friends at a small copy store (in the break room) there is some funny banter and we learn right off that our lead man is a wise guy (but whom isn't now a days?) We already like him and can connect with the way he thinks. Then the movie takes a quick and depressing turn
*SPOILERS* Next we find out our hero is low on cash owes money to his landlord and then his brother (whom we know nothing about at this point) has just died. In my opinion a little much to start off with. We have a confusing funeral based mainly around a crying Shia LaBeouf, and No one wants to see that (where's Ren when you need her?) *END OF SPOILERS*
Basically we now feel bad for our friend here and are sympathizing...good job. ANYWAY, we are throw right into the chase (or is it a chase?) WHATEVER they are totally being forced (by threats/blackmail) to drive/steal/hide/fight/kill all because some computer lady is telling them too...wah wah...ok so it's probably really frightening annnd the risk of dying (or having one of your loved ones killed) is pretty much the ultimate reason to do something you wouldn't normally do, but I would just do it cause it looked BAD ASS. Ha but for real, the incredibly violent and vicious car crashes that happen throughout the film are probably the most disturbing factor of the whole film. Lets just say it gets graphic but also enough is left up to the imagination that you scare yourself with the outcome. Not to mention that Sling Blade is chasing these guys the whole time as the black chick from Josie and the Pussycats is trying to help solve the case...no really not to mention that because it's slightly inaccurate... although Billy Bob Thornton is really annoying in this, its possible that it is his character but I feel like someone a little less aggravating could have played this and it would have been less cartoonish when the main characters keep getting away (it reminded me of whole Spiderman/J. Jonah Jameson complex...except not as funny, just sayin...) and Rosario Dawson does a decent job, she plays the whole in-the-dark-military-official (thats about to find out a whole lotta shit she didn't know about) well and I believed that she was dumb...yup.
The level of tension that was built I feel was sufficient, for the style and the pacing I was both entertained and enthralled by a majority of the scenes. This film, basically did it's job as a Action/Mystery/Thriller although you kinda have it all figured out about 45 mins in (possibly earlier) and the thrill is really waiting for the next move and for when they will figure it all out.
*SPOILERS* without fail I always get roped into that second to last major scene in action films where the big death is about to happen but you KNOW that it's gonna get stopped but your all like oh no, oh no haha anyway when the mom has the necklace on and her own kid is about to blow her head off (of course unbeknownist to him) whilst she has been trying this whole time to save his life (some nerve you got there kid) I was LITERALLY on the edge of my seat, and THATs why you go see these kind of movies *END OF SPOILERS*
With Executive Producer Steven Spielberg on your side and a Director whom already worked closely with there lead actor once before in a similar film its hard to fuck this up so I was happy with the outcome. At the very least it should really make you think, not exactly about the government and how they can hide so much from us but the whole everything-working-on-computers-thing, that's what can really fuck with you I mean think back to the whole Y2K thing it got to a lot of people because the idea behind it is that we are afraid of technology the way we have seen machines malfunction and all that the fear kinda makes sense so either way we're fucked JAY-KAY
I give it 3 and a semi boners (out of five)
and I will leave you with this...
Save tonight
and fight the break of dawn
come tomorrow
tomorrow I'll
be gone...
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