Ein Polizist untersucht die Wahrheit hinter dem Tod seines Partners. Der mysteriöse Fall enthüllt beunruhigende Polizeikorruption und ein gefährliches Geheimnis, an dem eine unwahrscheinlich... Alles lesenEin Polizist untersucht die Wahrheit hinter dem Tod seines Partners. Der mysteriöse Fall enthüllt beunruhigende Polizeikorruption und ein gefährliches Geheimnis, an dem eine unwahrscheinliche junge Frau beteiligt ist.Ein Polizist untersucht die Wahrheit hinter dem Tod seines Partners. Der mysteriöse Fall enthüllt beunruhigende Polizeikorruption und ein gefährliches Geheimnis, an dem eine unwahrscheinliche junge Frau beteiligt ist.
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- Manuel 'Rocky' De La Cruz
- (as Gabriel Vargas)
- Naldo
- (as Ariel Rolando Pacheco)
- Jose De La Cruz
- (as Ismael Cruz Córdova)
- Eva De La Cruz
- (as Laura Gomez)
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The next day, a crooked police officer is found dead in the same subway station, and one by one, all the associates of the woman disappear or are murdered. She herself begins to witness surreal visions which increase in frequency when she befriends a small girl she suspects to be a victim of sexual abuse.
This movie had the makings of an intriguing plot, as the story expands and we learn more about the various characters and how they are, or may be, related. Unfortunately, the makings of a plot do not equal a plot itself, and this is never more so the case than when the studio edits the film to try to create suspense and mystery that should have been inherent in the original screenplay. The endless flashbacks, vision sequences, and out-of-chronology scenes add nothing to the film but confusion and, oddly enough, tedium. They take a better-than-average premise and turn it into a mess of a movie, saved primarily by the few nuggets of genuine creativity in the plot and the looks and acting of Ana de Armas and the cast who portray her family members.
I gave this film 6 stars, solely because I felt the current consensus of 4.2 is absurdly low. A realistic rating would be in the 5.2 to 5.5 range, in my opinion. As the film is only 90 minutes, you won't waste much time watching it if you happen to disagree.
Whilst there are one or two points of interest here and De Armas is as good as ever, this is a directionless mess of a film which simply makes no sense whatsoever. Add to this that it is all pretty boring and that at the end it just stops, resolving nothing and you have the makings of a truly dire production.
Of interest however, there is some controversy around this film. The producers, Lionsgate, were apparently expecting a standard Keanu Reeves cop thriller (presumably they decided not to read the script) and when they saw the original film, called 'Daughter of God', they had a seizure and recut the thing into the shambles we have today as 'Exposed'.
I have not seen 'Daughter of God', but by all accounts it is a flawed, but fairly coherent story of a woman and her beliefs with the cop element being a key but secondary element of the story. I do not doubt that there are films out there that producers have restored to masterpieces and which went on to make box office gold, this though seems to be another classic tale of producers misunderstanding what they were getting / had and just turned what they had into total rubbish. What a waste, because when you analyse the nonsense you've seen, you can detect sparks of what it might have been.
So what else "Exposed" is NOT:
- This is not a movie starring Keanu Reeves. In fact, Reeves' character plays a very insignificant role in the developments. But unlike Emily Blunt's virtually 'non-existing' lead in "Sicario" that ultimately ruins that otherwise interesting and well-directed flick, it doesn't ruin anything here, because this movie more or less manages to get through the studio's irrational indeed interference and somehow remains centered around a female protagonist played by Ana de Armas. And Reeves should have been credited in the same way as Mira Sorvino is – "and Keanu Reeves".
- This movie is not an action thriller either. Police work and corrupt cops are present but seen from a different angle.
What is "Exposed" then? Despite all the carnage caused by the studio's decisions, it's still a legit psychological drama with half of its dialogue in Spanish, which structure resembles those another Spanish speaker Borges found fascinating in many Chesterton's stories – we have two explanations: a supernatural one and a realistic one. While all the story lines are not perfectly pulled together – again, probably thanks to precious alterations introduced by the "suits" – overall, the writing is competent. So is the directing. The acting could have been better at times, but it doesn't affect the movie in any critical way. All in all, it's a quite decent one – slightly above average.
If I'm not mistaken, Terry Gilliam said that after a nuclear disaster there will be two surviving species: cockroaches and studio executives. Well long live Cockroaches!
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- WissenswertesThe original story was a surreal bi-lingual drama, reminiscent of Pans Labyrinth (2006) and Irreversibel (2002) that focused on child abuse, violence towards women, mass incarceration and police violence committed under the color of authority. However, the movie was sold to Lionsgate Premiere, which thought it had been sold a Keanu Reeves cop thriller. During the editing process, Lionsgate Premiere changed the story's focus to center on Reeves' character, and changed the movie into a generic crime-thriller. Gee Malik Linton wrote and directed the film, but since Lionsgate Premiere and the producers edited the film without his approval, The Directors Guild of America (DGA) allowed him to take his name off the credits. He is still listed as writer, but his directing credit is listed as "Declan Dale".
- PatzerJose wraps the pork butt in a plastic bag rather than butcher paper. Reputable butchers always use butcher paper, rather than plastic, which is nonporous.
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Detective Galban: There's this girl, she knows what happened. What am I going to do, bring her in? She'd be dead in a week.
- Alternative VersionenThe writer/director intended the movie to be a dual language, Spanish/English social drama about violence towards women and child abuse. The producers instead turned the movie into Keanu Reeves cop thriller. An alternate version that follows the director's vision was edited by Roman Polanski's longtime editor, Hervé de Luze
- SoundtracksCosas de la Noche
Written by Miguel Eugenio Gonzalez & Pablo E. Gonzalez Yermenos
Performed by M. Eye
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- Auch bekannt als
- Hija de Dios
- Drehorte
- New York City, New York, USA(establishing shots)
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- Budget
- 6.000.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 269.915 $