mastershaman

Absolutely awful, horrendous, vomitous tidal wave of putrid garbage! I know how this guy Dito Montiel gets to make these amateurish indulgent films, maybe he knows and you-know-what the right people. What I hate about this is that he gives a bad name to all independent filmmakers. He should not be engaging anything in this industry at all, not write, not direct. Just go away. Puhlease! This movie was such a waste it made me really upset. Considering the cast and the money this was an absolute crime on the part of the writer-director.

The film is really badly constructed, super indulgent, in places really badly acted (Tatum) and just simply boring and not interesting at all, filled with repetitious pretentious images of depressing, dark, putrid stuff that just relentlessly drives a message home which is that we were supposed to somehow feel for this character who as a child (Channing Tatum) grew up in the projects and shot 2 people. OK, now that's a 10 min short film. Now he's a police officer at NYPD and is carrying around this bottled up guilt, anger, frustration. This whole premise can only go so far, the problem is, it's stretched out over a feature film in a really rubbish way. I kept thinking to myself while watching this movie, if I see Tatum one more time appear on the screen being silent and "emoting" I'm going to stick my head in the freezer and slam the door on it a dozen times! I simply hated this film and got me really angry. This film did not deserve to be made and all the producers, executive producers and whoever else was involved in getting this film made (Trudy Styler are you listening?), last but not least the so-called "writer-director", should be absolutely ashamed of themselves for putting such garbage out into the world and giving independent filmmaking a bad name.

Shame they got 3 mil to get this film made. No wonder this is the director's first film. I have no idea what the other reviewers are on! "Warm" "Authentic"? So many other films 5 times as good could have been made for that kind of money. Totally boring "woo-hoo, watch me I'm witty, indie, and I have actor friends in high places"! I couldn't watch this at all. Full of lengthy pretentious "so-called-smart/witty/ funny" dialog interspersed with the prerequisite Sundance indie feel piano track and indie alt-rock band interludes while I'm watching Joe Fiennes swim in the water. Exhilarating entertainment! NOT! Turned it off half-way through screaming in pain!

I have no idea what these other reviewers are talking about. Usually these types of glowing reviews are sneaked in by people associated with the film to "prop it up" on the web. This is a painfully slow, bleak looking amateurish "student film" grade bore, topped with an implausible feeling. Forced, pretentious performances especially on the part of the girl played by the amateurish Tracey Heggins. I couldn't keep watching it after the first 10 minutes. I've seen too many of these where you're hoping against all hope that the film will get better - it doesn't 99% of the time so give it up now. I really can't understand what the fuss was about regarding this film on the festival circuit.