Seen this tonight after seeing some brief previews & reading about the film, which sounded like it would be good! It wasn't great!
The film follows a southwestern father, Bill Baker, who tries to help get his estranged daughter Allison, who is wrongfully accused of murdering her girlfriend in France. It is then that Bill makes it his mission to help get his daughter out of prison & bring the perpetrator to justice. But language & cultural barriers make it harder for him to get somewhere.
I found the film to be slow, yes I know it's a slow burner, but I only guessed that in the cinema & got it confirmed before writing this review. But it was too slow in itself & I didn't help that there were a lot of scenes which forgot the plot & overall, didn't add anything & slowed the film down! A good 40-50 minutes could've been cut out of the film & should've focused on the plot more as the scenes that didn't add to anything, weren't adding to the main story & just frustrated me as I was wanting the film to progress!
The love story part was good & to be fair, the relationship scenes with Bill & the single mum, Virginie & her daughter Maya were great also, but could've been shorten down as these scenes & other strayed too far away from the films plot which at a lot of points in the film, were almost completely forgotten. The charter of Allison was moody, gobby, arsey, chippy, hypocritical & very ungrateful. I didn't like her at all & should've shown her father more appreciation for going as far as getting the crap beaten out of him.
While I was engaged in the film for 2 hours & 12 minutes, I still felt that the pacing & runtime could've been improved as I did find it was dragging on. The end part was sad & somewhat unclear, we never find out what happens to the man Bill kidnapped & we never find out if he ever contacted Virginie & Maya again as I wanted some conclusion to that story arc.
There was some interesting moments in the film & like I said, I was engaged, but it did start to lose its way a lot in the film especially near the end. There were some great moments & a lot of sad ones.
Overall, the pacing & runtime on this film is bad & for such a simple plot, it should've been shorter as there were a lot of scenes which held up & forgot the main plot of the film. However, there was a good amount of scenes which did keep you engaged until it neared the end. The end in itself which sucked.
4/10.
The film follows a southwestern father, Bill Baker, who tries to help get his estranged daughter Allison, who is wrongfully accused of murdering her girlfriend in France. It is then that Bill makes it his mission to help get his daughter out of prison & bring the perpetrator to justice. But language & cultural barriers make it harder for him to get somewhere.
I found the film to be slow, yes I know it's a slow burner, but I only guessed that in the cinema & got it confirmed before writing this review. But it was too slow in itself & I didn't help that there were a lot of scenes which forgot the plot & overall, didn't add anything & slowed the film down! A good 40-50 minutes could've been cut out of the film & should've focused on the plot more as the scenes that didn't add to anything, weren't adding to the main story & just frustrated me as I was wanting the film to progress!
The love story part was good & to be fair, the relationship scenes with Bill & the single mum, Virginie & her daughter Maya were great also, but could've been shorten down as these scenes & other strayed too far away from the films plot which at a lot of points in the film, were almost completely forgotten. The charter of Allison was moody, gobby, arsey, chippy, hypocritical & very ungrateful. I didn't like her at all & should've shown her father more appreciation for going as far as getting the crap beaten out of him.
While I was engaged in the film for 2 hours & 12 minutes, I still felt that the pacing & runtime could've been improved as I did find it was dragging on. The end part was sad & somewhat unclear, we never find out what happens to the man Bill kidnapped & we never find out if he ever contacted Virginie & Maya again as I wanted some conclusion to that story arc.
There was some interesting moments in the film & like I said, I was engaged, but it did start to lose its way a lot in the film especially near the end. There were some great moments & a lot of sad ones.
Overall, the pacing & runtime on this film is bad & for such a simple plot, it should've been shorter as there were a lot of scenes which held up & forgot the main plot of the film. However, there was a good amount of scenes which did keep you engaged until it neared the end. The end in itself which sucked.
4/10.