robertemerald Review of Salvage

Salvage (I) (2009)

Interesting plot, high energy, something got loose thriller horror

[6/10 · 29 June 2019]

Salvage is low budget, but watchable. It doesn't scale any heights as movie-making, but there's enough drama (and blood) at all points of the compass to keep you motivated. Technically there are problems. Some people like the hand held camera technique, and there would be a case that this 'ordinary homesteads under attack' scenario would suit. The Director has the actors over-reacting quite a lot, including excessive panting from shots of adrenaline and terror. Again, to taste. The story is another one of those where you have to concede that everyone around the heroine is going to be very unlucky, but her luck will hold, again and again. OK, it is the heroine though, and we have to root for her. Can you see where I'm going? The story has a few hiccups too, if you stop to think about it. The heroine does, however, put in a fine performance, as do her immediate partners. Alas, my main problem with Salvage is to do with the portrait arriving from the mystery itself, and that's why it's only a 6 for me.