Doctor_Enigmatic

This was an intriguing thriller. I feel like it plays better for people that like unique films that tell a story differently. Yes a case could be made that it is "slow" as in we get a story laid out for us. I know, crazy idea.

The way the editing works in this film, is truly one of the highlights, second only to the music that sets the whole world alight. It doesn't tell the story in a linear fashion, and you get the chance to meet some characters and the movie shifts. That's when some of the cool edits happen; my favorite example is to show the passage of time there is a nifty little cut that makes a great transition.

The story unfolds at its own pace. It is telling the story and it wants you to get cozy with the characters and the world. There is that nostalgia filter that plays very well and doesn't get annoying or otherwise feel like an annoying addition to make a film fit the whole nostalgic feel that you see so often in these newer movies and shows.

Like another person said, you really do feel like you are in the 80's. It doesn't feel like a gimmick, but more of a memory you are thinking back on, almost like you would remember your house from your childhood.

I am a big fan of music, and I have been very much in love with the lofi and ambient style 80's synth music. I was a new wave fan, I still am, but I was then too. It is unique and really acts almost like the flute that hypnotized all the villages children. It feels like the world from your past, and the music keeps you tucked in this trance as you follow the rabbit down a tale of loneliness and not smart choices. It is haunting in a way, but it isn't an intense horror movie by any means. It is more or less a character driven thriller.

If you want something that plays different from most attempts at film these days, while at the same time having somethings you've enjoyed before told in a different way. I get saying it is like the King story, and I see that, but at the same time I think it does it's own thing more than that.

I enjoy nontraditional story telling and having the suspension of disbelief being easier to maintain because you don't see stupid choices or hear stupid unoriginal dialogue constantly.

My one complaint is there was a choice made, and it was a stupid choice at that, and it does feel like that the sole purpose to propel the story in a certain direction. It feels a little cheap and dumb, but putting that aside, everything else was solid about the film. Then there is the whole part at the end where you find out it seems to have been based on a true story. Usually studio execs love to force it down your throat that "BASED ON TRUE EVENTS!!!!!!!!" type of thing. Nope. This movie let that stuff slip in there like a ninja so that the shock is a bit more true.

The music in the opening scene that sets up the show, really out of place. 2/3 of the songs chosen were just odd, not fitting pieces. The Metallica was the compromise for dealing with the other two songs, I'm guessing.

So we have a bunch of like wolf's (not as fun as Brad and George) and they all do things their own way. Yet the main focus is on Dean being Jack; stereotypical get 'er done type cop. I still love 24 and The Shield. That was amazing writing and acting. This feels like it wants to be something like that, but it is so painfully paint by numbers.

I could forgive the obvious writing playing all the notes we've seems hundreds of times before, but when you got such... Questionable talent, it makes it feel like ice skating up hill. Jensen is the real talent, the reason many show. Up to watch. It's unfortunate he keeps ending up in things were the scripts are so lame. I was so excited for him to be Batman and WB wizzed him down their leg like they did with Daniel Craig with Bond. Now we got this show with it's very lame writing, and I'm worried about the jobs he gets next.

Then we got the female cop who nobody likes because she has to prove she's just as rough as the boys. See. Look at her beating in heads and bucking authority. She's a strong female lead and we'll like it. She does what boys do.

You got the nerd suck up who is great for the tech stuff, then there are two other dudes that are, meh. Filling bodies is really their only role. They don't do anything to add to the dynamic.

The final scene, you got a bunch of detectives approaching something that looks like a mini fat boy, complete with radiological symbol, but only one of these toupe detectives is like, hey! And walks away slowly with another lame music choice, so he can take his time getting to a truck, so he can get his sensor to see the rads. You got the 4 other detectives and their 2 commanding officers arguably closer than he was, and yet this one background guy had to prove he is one of the wolf's too.

Woof.