This Old Machine

Took the advice of the previous review and watched wall. Great experience.

Kept hanging on thinking I would get some satisfaction but it never happened..Story is full of unexplained holes..The 2 actors I recognized should have never agreed to that movie,it just puts them closer to unemployment

Those reviewers who said you should watch a wall instead were right. A total waste of time.

This movie is downright awful. I only watched it for Kevin Sorbo, whos character in this was very confusing. I have no idea what role his character actually plays in the story. The acting was just awful,, it was so so bad.. Kevin was the only person in this movie who can act. The old man was alright, the rest of the actors were terrible. Most of this story does not make any sense. The ending is terrible. The camera man needed to be fired and banned from movie making forever. The wife is one the most annoying characters I have ever seen. She goes on and on about how terrible her husband is and yet he was never rude to her once, but she was constantly being rude to him, yet her family hated him for some unexplained reason. The characters had no idea what they were doing. They did not know how tonhandle a firearm properly at all, nothing they did was thought out. They were just a couppe of idiots running around looking the man's wife with no idea of what they were doing. Most of the actors in the Movie are ugly as HELL too! It is as if they sought out the ugliest people they could find for this movie. Maybe only really ugly people would apply for the roles.

I can't relate to the low opinions and star ratings. I'm convinced that the director executed his artist and story-telling vision. The movie portrays high, messy humanity at its worst, and the actors come across as real-life individuals -- no make-up, no beautiful people, no perfect statements/lines,... no contrivances. The acting was real people talking as real people talk and real people do. I feel Henriksen was particularly effective. This movie is life with a little 'l' delivering Life with a big 'L' truth about the human condition. I found it engaging and effective at establishing and sustaining authentic dramatic tension. I still don't like shaky-cam, but here I think it worked; and, sure, there was loose end or two remaining, but life has loose ends, and the story remained focused.