★ 7 / 10
Just watched this on YouTube. It’s not an
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Just watched this on YouTube. It’s not an easy watch but interesting nonetheless. The most confusing part is that Ray was abducted twice in the movie. Each…
Just watched this on YouTube. It’s not an easy watch but interesting nonetheless. The most confusing part is that Ray was abducted twice in the movie. Each time it happened at the same convenient store dealing with the same cashier short-changing and the same homeless guy. This is hard to follow but maybe it implies a What-If scenario where Ray could have a different treatment by the Tentacle 8 headship? What happened to Ray in the 9-11 terror attack at the end of the movie?
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★ 7 / 10
This piece appears at least to me to
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This piece appears at least to me to be as if someone picked up all the pieces of film shot are tossed into a meat grinder and we are left to try to put it…
This piece appears at least to me to be as if someone picked up all the pieces of film shot are tossed into a meat grinder and we are left to try to put it together....The shoplifter at the begginning appears to be meaningless. It is only at the end when very cryptic allusions are made to 9/11, that you realize that, other than, that he is marching to his doom in Windows on the World, you must have missed something and you feel you must see the thing again to see if anything can be made of the mop of knotted endings, but none of these allusions to things pan out. and then another ending of the secret fact of the many body bags coming back from the wars that govt. tried to keep secret. The acting by all is excellent and you wish they had a recognizable story to tell and that the editing made sense.
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New kind of political thrillers
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Well, I am not surprised that this film was not more widely released, especially never mentioned in France, even on Allo Ciné website. Not for everyone. Too…
Well, I am not surprised that this film was not more widely released, especially never mentioned in France, even on Allo Ciné website. Not for everyone. Too complex and even American folks may be lost in this intrigue which Alan Pakula would have certainly been interested in. Dark, downbeat, complicated at the most, but I like this. It's so American. In France, this kind of films are very hard to product, because TV channels finance them, most of the time, and they are afraid to have problems with the political institutions afterwards. For instance, all films related with WW2 and French people who collaborated with the Nazis, or films about war in Algeria or all those sewers affairs which the politicians were involved with, all those nasty affairs were avoided by the French movie or TV industry, most of the time. Not always although.Yes not for everyone, but not bad, as most of small budget features often are. Films for which the producers may take some financial risks, unlike large budget crap movies which must have some profit earning capacity.I would put this film on the small list of indie political thrillers which are totally cliché ridden: for instance : FIVE MINARETS IN NEW YORK, UNTHINKABLE, SHOOT ON SIGHT or SORRY HATERS.
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Crap movie, crap crap crap. AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS!