Wired Shut

Again another snails pace film made in lockdown which only has a small handful of actors in and expects them to carry the interest without anything happening for most of the film. The daughter is annoying, the fathers part is an easy acting roll, nothing to remember. Just another dull lockdown film, tired of watching them now, they should have stayed at home.

I will say I didn't enjoy the daughter much, she came off as a bit of a brat. That being said this movie was fully set on the shoulders of three actors. I think they picked a great villain and he was very interesting. I kept hoping I would not have to see the father open his mouth, it was just gross to see. But all in all this was not an awful movie, more of an acquired taste. If you have nothing better to watch this can seem a bit drawn out but it entertains and that was the point.

A rich author with broken jaw that's wired shut gets a visit from his estranged daughter who harbours a grudge about past fatherly failings.

Dad can't speak because of his jaw so there's not much conversation going on making the first half of the film rather tedious.

Add a psycho boyfriend to the second half and things pick up - they don't pick up enough to make this a good film but enough to save it from being a poor film.

Firstly the music was great. The lighting and colour hue was wonderful. Great camera work. There were actually quite a few cool things that grabbed my attention, but it just didn't get there for me.

The long pause scenes, a little too long, but make sense. I appreciate slow burn films, but this just didn't fully deliver.

While I didn't overly like the movie, and I really wanted to because I did quite appreciate the elements, style and camera work. I really liked it visually. The writing was decent, but felt too predictable at times.

There's some definite potential with the writing of Peter Malone Elliott and Alexander Sharp. Definitely keep a watch out for Alexander Sharp because I feel he has got some extraordinary talent he has yet to unleash and share. I think he's on to a great start to be honest.

How is this film got such a high rating ?

That was a reason I've watched it in a first place...The story is boring , the audio effects are atrocious , acting is ridiculous , long shots about nothing...Highly not recommended !