A Secret Handshake

Bad Acting, Bad directing. The cinematography is really haphazardly done with no consistent linkage from one scene to the next. The acting is extremely fake for all the actors. I reckon the only good acting done was the bloody tongue wiggling on the floor. There is definitely no flow in this movie. Furthermore, within the first 5 minutes of the movie, one will definitely know that the movie has been done on the cheap. With all this negativity, I have to say that the leading actress who is Jacob's wife is extremely good looking and if I have to say so..she doesn't seem to fit the role as an actress. She seems more like a model who's confused. Jacob the lead actor does a disgusting job especially when shown tied up to the bed. His acting seems extremely fake. I don't recommend watching this movie unless you've seen all the movies in this world and are bored stiff.

i just rented this for the weekend and i guess this will take me the whole weekend to watch it, because i will have to watch it in at least 3 steps.

why? because it is so freakin badly produced!! the story really sounds interesting, maybe everyone who has not spend already $5 for renting the DVD should stick to the book. i really tried to watch this, but after 15 minutes it was just too hard for me to stick to it.

the acting is way less than amateur level, the sound mixing is just meaningless, camera works is awful, the lightning is a joke as it is completely random and to sum it up it is impossible to watch. i have seen TV productions for local cable stations that beat this by miles. what kills me the most and ultimately drove me to turn it off was the acting. i could have lived with all the major flaws, just for the stories sake, but the acting is unbelievably bad.

where did the half a million dollars go? Darren Aronofsky's pi was made with 60.000 dollars and beats this movie one every level. $ 500.000 for this movie? for what? hopefully someone buys the script and makes another version of this movie. as i wrote i will force me to watch this through the weekend, because the story really sounds tempting, but this one ain't gonna be easy.

This a strange little film. Every aspect screams "amateur" - the acting quality is a tiny notch above porn, the script trips into cliché at the worst moments, the direction is clumsy, the lighting (when they use any) veers between daylight or an 80s soft-rock ballad video. However, the story is great. I didn't see what was coming (truth be told it would be hard to predict) but there were clues planted along the way when you look back on it.

Whether this all makes sense is another matter, but maybe that's the point. I enjoyed watching it - it was wanting to know what happened at the end that kept me going, even though all through it I kept thinking "This is so bad..." The last 60 seconds of the film, however, should have been cut, as they ultimately spoil it.

Give this story to some new writers, director and cast, and it could have been a hit.

OK, I decided to give this one a go just in case it turned out to be a decent film; though I'm not sure how such misleading comments happen to find their ways to the frontpage of many movies I an curious about, most seem written by someone involved with the film. Anyway, onto the film.

Footage was downright grainy, though the sound quality wasn't too bad, there for a while I thought I was watching something from the 70's. The acting wasn't too bad, though I have to venture to guess the lead role was probably the writer of the script (his acting was the worst). The script was quite disjointed, and many times you'll find yourself asking "Just what the Hell is going on." Even by the end of the movie there are a lot of holes. Some writers try to get away with doing this by saying that it's up to the viewer to fill in the holes with their own ideas; I say that's just a load of crap.

You can get an idea of what the movie is about simply by reading the plot summary; you won't get too much more out of the movie itself, though it did have some strange points. What would I compare this film to? How about a mix between Primer and The Attic Expeditions (awesome flick, much better than this one. Check it out!!!), some movie it isn't like are: Crash, Identity, Unknown, etc.; it wants to be like these but falls short. I will give it a few thumbs up because it kept me fairly interested and it did pick up toward the end, though nothing is really explained.

Bottom Line: Not bad, but could have been done much better for the same cost. How about bringing some of the plot threads together so the audience isn't totally confused, you lose them that way.

Good Story poor acting, but don't let that stop you watching this film. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The finer details are hidden with twists and turns and there's a jaw-dropper at the end. The acting is very much B Movie acting, but that fades into the background as you try and work out what is going on with the story. The cinematography was OK, script was OK, what really makes this film stand out is the story (which I don't want to go into to much details and spoil it for anyone). This film is defiantly worth a watch and I'll be keeping my eyes on Harsha Gijre (screenplay), to see what else he can come up with. Does anyone know of anything else he's been involved with? There were quite a few foreign names in the credits, so he might have done something before in another country.