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The Other Side of the Mirror (2016)
Hogg-pogg cluster fu<<
I'm willing, no matter how hard, to overlook absolutely inexcusable setting flaws when it's on the grounds of 100% unavoidable. (Example: The power lines, lines painted on the roads, modern street lights, the delivery box for The Oregonian.) Hell, I'll even overlook the costume fail of having everyone else in cloths that are circa 1990s when you've set the time to be 1905.
From the image on the cover I am looking forward to seeing a movie about a girl traversing the darker side of... Anything but what I got. I was thinking like high school, popularity, peer pressure, hell I'd have even been happy with a pure goth live action version of the original. HOWEVER, what was delivered was a movie that spent more than half its time as a full color silent movie with the most GOD AWFUL back ground music. This stuff is worse than elevator music!! Whoever made this call needs to have their head examined. The ONLY brake from the racket was the, too often unintelligible, borderline psychotic monologues almost everyone EXCEPT Alice seemed to have. Splashed with the occasional clip of actual Alice lines, which were spoken with zero emotion, or feeling. It was like some cheap version of Sucker Punch, meets Matrix in an Alice in Wonderland costume. DID NOT WORK!!
There was no flow, other than the progressive decay of Alice's dress. Only two actors where readily identifiable as their role. Knowing the real story of Alice did nothing to help a person navigate this horse's load of... AND while we're on the topic of horses!! WHAT THE HELL?! A random horse just walks up to the set, sniffs around the table, the actors just stop and watch it, then when it runs off they go back to the scene like nothing happened and SOME HOW, this blooper (which serves ZERO purpose) was left in!! NO!!!
This movie was a complete waste of time, I feel sorry for EVERYONE involved in this movie. I'm from the Pacific North West myself, I know for a fact that this could have been done SSSOOOO much better. We have so many cool props and people willing to help just for the fun of it. There is no reason, why so many of these easily rectifiable errors were left in here.
All that's being said, I get that this is supposed to be some type of drug awareness movie. IT FAILS! A. Alice in Wonderland should NEVER be used to convey that type of material as children could accidentally see it. Especially with that cover art. To a child it basically says, "Oh look Alice did drugs I can to!" While I'm a firm believer in 'hands on parenting' stuff like this makes that job even harder! B. You didn't convey anything about drugs other than almost everyone in this movie did them to some existent. Whether it's Alice taking am unknown pill from a complete stranger, or the old man shooting up in the barn, there are drugs EVERYWHERE in this movie. It's absurd.
The only thing that saved this movie from a zero was the Edger Allen Poe guy who seemed to be playing three different roles. He successfully creeped me out as the cat, made me hate him as the white rabbit, and wished there was am under current of romance that could have held the story along but there was nothing.