★ 1 / 10
Tell Me How I Die only has two
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Tell Me How I Die only has two problems: the title and the premise, which remind me, respectively, of I Know Who Killed Me and Final Destination — in other…
Tell Me How I Die only has two problems: the title and the premise, which remind me, respectively, of I Know Who Killed Me and Final Destination — in other words, I haven’t even seen it and I already have bad memories of it.
Broke college student Anna Nichols (Virginia Gardner) has the dubious "gift" of correctly predicting what drink someone is going to order at a bar, and whether or not they are of drinking age (e.g., “Manhattan and a fake ID.”
Elsewhere, Dr. Jerrems (William Mapother) has been working on A9913, a formula to enhance memory "up to 300%." The good doctor needs guinea pigs just like Anna; that is, young and attractive — this isn’t a clinical trial; it’s a casting call.
I’m aware that you can’t make a Dead Teenager Movie without teenagers (i.e., actors on the wrong side of their 20s). On the other hand, unless this is a drug for very early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, the age range of the group makes zero sense. Moreover, there is exactly one (1) Asian participant; the rest are as white as the tip of Tony Montana’s nose. All things considered, not a very representative sample.
Anyway, Anna begins to "remember the future," specifically, the deaths of her co-guinea pigs. Are these visions real, or as fake as the CGI snow falling outside the lab? Only hardcore iCarly fans who idolized Nathan Kress, who plays Anna's romantic interest, will be able to sustain enough interest to find out the answer to that question.
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★ 5 / 10
Acceptable time waster
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College kids looking for cash join drug trials. The main side effect is precognition. And the future doesn't look bright. A little slow at times, a little bit…
College kids looking for cash join drug trials. The main side effect is precognition. And the future doesn't look bright.
A little slow at times, a little bit, "Who cares?", but Tell Me How I Die is also sometimes charming, and the dialogue is occasionally interesting. This isn't a movie made for Oscars, it's a movie based around giving young people something easy and moderately enjoyable to watch. It meets those modest ambitions. (And, to contradict an earlier reviewer, the ending makes plenty of sense.) It's not good enough to say, "Go see it!" But it's not bad enough to say, "Don't." And there are enough sort-of-new ideas in this that I'm looking forward to the filmmakers' next projects. If they can come up with a better story line, with a bit more to fill up 90 minutes, they should be able to make something genuinely good.
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I know I'm late but... FOR RYAN!!!