The Ray

I had forgotten my IMDB credentials but this movie was so manure that I had to go through the extra work to leave this review.

If you have seen The Room, this is a sequel to that. Not thematically but otherwise. Not as funny, but definitely cringe-inducing in such a fashion that it will leave your face permanently disfigured.

Script is written by a child who likes dank memes, has never heard of "show, don't tell" nor has any idea how to people speak. Combine that with director that has no idea how to move the movie forward and just makes the most banal choices. Useless main character with whiny attitude. Even more useless bad guys with deep philosophical thoughts like "I like to imagine eating T-Rex when I am eating chicken". Terrible acting. Plot twists that make your hand start searching for nearest box cutter to end your life so you would stop feeling this deep vicarious embarrassment. This movie has it all.

The only thing that keeps you watching this thing is the curiosity on what idiotic thing will happen next. I guess that counts for something.

The story is not particularly strong, there is a lot that I wish was explained better, and the movie all-around feels like there are some scenes that are missing, although I wouldn't be able to tell you what would happen in them.

However, this is a fun movie. It is the perfect amount of goofy to go with the action, the acting is well done I thought, and the action itself isn't half bad.

There is something missing, maybe a plotline or something that would make it feel more complete, but overall that feeling of something left out kinda makes me jones for a sequel. Also, the movie has some hint of reality in the form the action takes, and it could be the director's choice to not allow the audience to know everything and that missing information is what feels like a gap.

I had a lot of fun watching it, I will likely watch it again and I will recommend it to friends. I have never left a review on here before but saw a user who gave it 1/10 stars and felt like that was so unjust that I had to leave my uneducated consumer opinion.

Criminal operator Ray (Ben Milliken) barely escapes with his life. He's hiding from a crime lord. He tries to go straight with an insurance job, his girlfriend, and her son. Grayson (Richard Kind) discovers his secret and blackmails him into one last job. It goes badly and he encounters Billings (Brad William Henke).

This is a small Australian crime thriller comedy. Ben Milliken is not quite leading man material but that's fine. Indies have limitations. The story is pretty basic except for the Mandela effect. That's a fun twist. My one big issue is that Ray should be smarter. He's set up as a superior street-smart criminal. When the tire gets slashed, he should know right away that someone is coming after the package. He can't waste time changing the tire. He needs to run and hide. He's also a little slow in a few other times. It's annoying when a smart character isn't quite so smart. The writing also has a few hiccups. A lot of this needs to be a bit smarter.

A low budget film that punches above it's weight class. A clever idea for a film. If the budget was bumped up, they had an A-list actor and if wrote it less as a horror film; I could see this getting a following.

The ray, or run and gun was a fun and watchable movie. It might not have been overly great, but there were certain things that made it good. The strongest part of this film to me is certainly the cast as each give their own and through the seriousness there is also fun with their characters to be had. Ray was in prison but he reformed and has a good job, now with a girlfriend and child. But he gets a chance to make it big with one more job and so he does it and gets in with bad people. Richard kinds character having a deep conversation with Ray about the Mandela effect was one of the funniest things and I liked it for that. Overall it's a decent action film that was made well.