It’s a pretty good little movie? If you’re planning on watching it, don’t read this blog post. It’s better to go in without knowing anything.
Oh, I get it.
I understand what they’re after with this colour grading, but it is brutally ugly, which is wearying after a while. And it’s shot on early digital video, which makes it doubly horrible.
Well… the structure of this movie works against it. The first part was fast-paced and initially confusing, but then we figured everything out. And immediately after we’ve figured everything out…
They show us everything that’s already happened from a different point of view, and this doesn’t really do much than tell us what we’ve already guessed.
(But it does add a lot of jokes. Pretty good gags.)
Oh, and now they’re going to do it all again and perhaps surprise us this time around?
No, that was just a fake-out.
Well… it’s a pretty good movie — there’s some original stuff in here. But it did feel a bit padded, and I rather lost interest after a while.
JCVD. Mabrouk El Mechri. 2008. ⚃
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