This is NOT a good movie. It's not Brody's fault though. The film is similar to 'Buried' and '127 Hours', and it is not as good as either one.
Why? ...because of an array of horror-movie-esque poor decisions.
That and the fact that the hallucinations make it very difficult to decipher what is real and what is not. What was meant as something to add to the plot - ends up as something that muddles the plot.
Our lead character climbs down a hill and gets in the river... floats down river for a good while... swims to shore and comes up in the same place he started... uh... there's something very wrong about that. Then again, maybe it never happened.
Confusion. No closure. We care nothing for this character. ZERO character development here. They could have made this better by extending the set-up.
Let's give 'Buried' the award for this genre over the last 2 years, and hope that the genre has met its' quota for a while. I don't think that its' Adrian Brody's fault, but the lack of dialog here hurts the film. It's amazing that we can know three times as much about a Ryan Reynolds character who is trapped in a wood casket in 'Buried'. But in the end, the 'stupid' decision making here really puts the icing on the crap-cake.
I'd pass on this one.
37/100
Why? ...because of an array of horror-movie-esque poor decisions.
That and the fact that the hallucinations make it very difficult to decipher what is real and what is not. What was meant as something to add to the plot - ends up as something that muddles the plot.
Our lead character climbs down a hill and gets in the river... floats down river for a good while... swims to shore and comes up in the same place he started... uh... there's something very wrong about that. Then again, maybe it never happened.
Confusion. No closure. We care nothing for this character. ZERO character development here. They could have made this better by extending the set-up.
Let's give 'Buried' the award for this genre over the last 2 years, and hope that the genre has met its' quota for a while. I don't think that its' Adrian Brody's fault, but the lack of dialog here hurts the film. It's amazing that we can know three times as much about a Ryan Reynolds character who is trapped in a wood casket in 'Buried'. But in the end, the 'stupid' decision making here really puts the icing on the crap-cake.
I'd pass on this one.
37/100