...of which were 3 minutes long of useless fade in and out images to black screen opening credits - back and forth, back and forth, repeat, etc...
Then we have the Jack of all trades, master of none film credits: producer, writer, director, editor, cinematographer, actor, and sound... Marcus Mizelle, who's actual experience is Camera and Electrical Department. So, to go from what you're seasoned experience is, to wearing that many hats - attempted 10-14 times, still ended up as a flop.
The directing was amateurish with worse editing than a 5th grader. The cinematography was sub-par and the fade-to-spot scenes was over-and-done in the 1980's. The writing/screenplay bland, predictable, mish-mashed scenes, slow, and riddled with plot and technical issues. An 80 minute film should not feel like it's 3 hours long, and certainly not have 13 minutes of opening and closing credits! So the actual 67 minutes of story had too much filler with little substance, and should have been a short film. The score was annoyingly repetitive, loud, constant, and unfitting. With the exception of newb actor Donald Prabatah, and Alicia Leigh Willis, every other actor was terrible - bland, boring and unconvincing. Most of that blame falls on the director, who needed to do a much better job in directing his cast.
Clearly this film has been falsely up-voted, not to mention the clearly obvious bogus reviews. It's not that Marcus Mizelle is an un-experienced filmmaker, so there's no excuse for this bad production, but perhaps he should've worn less hats, and passed on some of the major responsibilities to more seasoned filmmakers. The film I saw before this one, Last Moment of Clarity (2020), was written and directed by two amateur brother filmmakers - their first ever dabble in filmmaking, and they nailed it. Marcus Mizelle needs to see that film and look at their empty resume and see how a film should be made.
It's an honest and very generous 3/10 from me.
