Put simply, this is the most mediocre film I've had the opportunity to watch on DVD. The acting is mediocre, the special effects mediocre, the setting mediocre. For a change the storyline is not mediocre: it's worse than that.
I'm quite sure that I would have done a better job myself with half the budget allocated to the film. The constant referring to flashbacks is good at the start but becomes annoying as the film drags along. Drags, because the story is so damn predictable that you're just waiting for it to end. There are a couple of humorous points ("Fuck yourself." "I can do that, too") but these only highlight how drab and uninspiring the rest of the script is. Dialogue is zero, acting on the same level. You neither care nor want to care about the main actor. Let this be over with, please.
Special effects (usually a comeback for films like this) are hopeless too. Take the SWAT attack on the homeless community for example. How many of you have seen other film where SWAT members spend an inordinate amount of time posing with their guns but then fire blindly from the hip? The whole scene is directed so atrociously you never know hoe many people are actually there and where they really are. You realize the fight has ended when the truck blows up because... that's the way it is usually done. And I really really stood up laughing when the director shows us the main actor removing the tracking device from the pistol: a normal capacitor of the kind you can buy from every electronics shop.
I will not pass comments on the ending of the film, because it's sheer, unadulterated senselessness (and mediocrity) left me breathless. I hope it was a twisted joke I failed to comprehend, and not an attempt at serious film-making.
I'm quite sure that I would have done a better job myself with half the budget allocated to the film. The constant referring to flashbacks is good at the start but becomes annoying as the film drags along. Drags, because the story is so damn predictable that you're just waiting for it to end. There are a couple of humorous points ("Fuck yourself." "I can do that, too") but these only highlight how drab and uninspiring the rest of the script is. Dialogue is zero, acting on the same level. You neither care nor want to care about the main actor. Let this be over with, please.
Special effects (usually a comeback for films like this) are hopeless too. Take the SWAT attack on the homeless community for example. How many of you have seen other film where SWAT members spend an inordinate amount of time posing with their guns but then fire blindly from the hip? The whole scene is directed so atrociously you never know hoe many people are actually there and where they really are. You realize the fight has ended when the truck blows up because... that's the way it is usually done. And I really really stood up laughing when the director shows us the main actor removing the tracking device from the pistol: a normal capacitor of the kind you can buy from every electronics shop.
I will not pass comments on the ending of the film, because it's sheer, unadulterated senselessness (and mediocrity) left me breathless. I hope it was a twisted joke I failed to comprehend, and not an attempt at serious film-making.