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terrible movie

posted 10 years ago by crazylikeamoose
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The only positive thing i can say is all the actors involved are great and did their best considering the director and his execution of the material. Pollyanna McIntosh and Angela Bettis were especially excellent and were the only reason to finish watching. I am not troubled by disturbing themes and visuals as long as they aren't trite or gratuitous. The use of music was terrible, the camera-work at times seemed amateurish, and nothing rang true like something like this could actually happen. I guess i'm not a McKee fan. 'Red' with Brian Cox was excellent though but i'm uncertain how much of his talent is in the final product.

[–] big_hair_x 9 years ago

Agree with most of what you say here, though I think he material was threadbare at best. It could've been a great story about an abusive and psychotic father torturing his family and trying to train his son but instead it just came across as all males are evil rapists and all females are weak idiots.

Fantastic performances by all was the only redeeming quality about a terribly directed and badly written story.

And yeah, the soundtrack was so bad it was distracting. I've never been annoyed by a films music as much as I am with this.