I hate it when a film has a great idea, message and actors, and ends up pure CRAP!! This is that film. The message concerning the unjust media and the power of television was a good idea, but the screenplay and directing was so poor everyone in the screening at sundance was sleeping. The plot was incredibly predictable, which is not necessarily bad all the time, but this was bad because there was nothing too keep the film going. The audience all knew what was going on and the ending was pretty predictable from the first frame.
It starts out intriguing and exciting with the lynching scene, but the rest of the film is slow slow slow. The film looks and feels so bleak and dead. It is also extremely stretched at it's time length, it could work as a short, but feature length stretches it to the limit.
I have seen over 20 films at Sundance so far, and this is my least favorite, please beware, this is a thriller-less thriller and an overwrought drama with too much pointless dialogue. The Sundance book says it it taut, and that is just WRONG. There are much better films about this concept, just pass on this bloated dead stinker
It starts out intriguing and exciting with the lynching scene, but the rest of the film is slow slow slow. The film looks and feels so bleak and dead. It is also extremely stretched at it's time length, it could work as a short, but feature length stretches it to the limit.
I have seen over 20 films at Sundance so far, and this is my least favorite, please beware, this is a thriller-less thriller and an overwrought drama with too much pointless dialogue. The Sundance book says it it taut, and that is just WRONG. There are much better films about this concept, just pass on this bloated dead stinker