Reklaw

I was invited to watch this by mysterious email, the kind you typically see go straight to spam, but this one didn't, which means I must have let one go through quite a long time ago before this.

As it turned out, this short was produced and directed by the guy/team that made the Casey Jones short many moons ago, and just as that one did, Reklaw left me wanting to see more.

The first few minutes I was repeating in my head "Surely this has something to do with Walker spelled backwards, but what?" Instead I was treated to a curious blend of R-rated Wes Anderson meets Cohen Brothers (before they went all arthouse filmmaking) and a slice of modern Phillip K. Dick dark humor with a compelling but shortly teased crime concept that was highly intriguing, whetting my curiosity just enough to wonder what a 30 minute short would look like, and then that snowballed into a 90 minute feature.

I'm not even going to break into critic mode and reveal any story plot; you can spare 12 minutes and enjoy this one yourself.