Devious Beings

I rented this movie and thought it was pretty good. I really enjoyed the colors they used. If you can look past the boom shots, it is a tight little story. It reminded me of "Narc" but without the money for the bigger named actors.

All in all wasn't that bad of a movie once you can get past the boom that somehow seems to be in every scene. You would think you would catch that in editing. It basically tries a little pulp fiction approach. Also along the lines of every other drug type movie now a days.Friends get themselves in trouble with a deal gone wrong and have to fix it, meanwhile which a couple are being blackmailed by a crooked cop. Typically you knew what was gonna happen throughout most of the movie with only a few shocks. Jackson (Patrick Van Horn) basically is the whole movie. With a cameo by Maria Celedonio(Maria) one of my favorite unknown actresses(Freeyway 2, The substitute)which mad the film a little more bearable. All in all if you feel like wasting a couple hours of your life then pick this movie up.

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Chris Mazzei's Devious Beings turns on itself like a Moebius strip-the story arc is actually a series of orbits. Think of each character as an electron circling a dense nucleus in which self- preservation vibrates the whole. All the performances are strong and discrete-Mazzei somehow manages to navigate his actors through a complex, violent landscape that's dark all day long. It's not absolutely perfect, but he takes two or three movies worth of typical Hollywood clichés and stacks them with both style and skill. Andre B. Blake is the conflicted protagonist who plays and gets paid, but Robert Gossett is the main reason to check out this movie. His performance as the villain Damone is diabolical.

No artful writeup here because it doesn't deserve one. Not an art film. Not even one of those 'hidden' gems. You know, like those movies you hear about through a friend who saw this amazing movie downtown where they show all the good independents and art films.

Just pack it into the christmas boxes, and dispose of quickly.