Dark Iris

I thought this film was great once it picked up in the second half. The acting was much better than I expected. I loved that the women were the strong characters. Good dialogue, but again a bit slow at the beginning then it picks up nicely.

The current 6 star rating for this movie is fraudulent. The one positive review comes from someone who has reviewed nothing else, so I can safely assume it's a shill for the director.

The special effects (what few exist) are on par with films from the 1940s. I think I can safely say I could have done a better job with After Effects than we see in this movie.

The acting is -- at best -- on par with stage drama at a mid-sized college. Throughout the entire Agent Fry acts precisely like an annoying 13 year old girl. (Imagine the stink-eye scene from "Juno" or Jennifer Grey's character as this sister in "Ferris Beuler's Day Off") making snarky faces and juvenile remarks.

In fact, the entire script was sophomoric. The writer (director AND producer... this is generally the sign that it's going to be bad) didn't even bother trying to figure out police procedures to work with the story. Included in the story were two MI6 agents, neither of which was British. One was Russian. My guess for the casting is that the actors were friends of the director.

The only reason I didn't give this 1 star is that there are actually worse films (like "Manos").

...that doesn't hit its mark. Sadly the story has been done before. It was decent for the small budget but you have to rate it against other mainstream films.

Here we have a film created, produced, written, directed, edited and cast by novice Derek Talib. As you can imagine, when a seasoned film-maker takes on all these roles, the film is usually a fail as it's too much ambition to wear that many hats. In this case, when an inexperienced novice actor wears that many hats, then you know it's going to be a mess, and a mess it was. Not sure if the budget was a few thousand dollars, but this was very low budget - almost like a high school drama project. The SFX was outdated, the acting was stale and poor and lacked direction, the writing was very loose and had pacing issues. I'm guessing this film was made just to add credits to Derek Talib's resume. Too bad they don't give credits for fake reviews as well, because Derock-29340's 9/10 (Derek=Derock lol) would have garnered him another bonus point for his resume. It's pathetic when you have to write your own review to try and fool viewers. It's a generous 2/10 from me.

The story begins from a special experiment. I saw this movie very interesting. It was a story about a female lead, and action scenes often made me happy. It even felt like a spy action movie. Action and reversal were in the right balance. I want to recommend it to other users.