The Sound

Loved the idea for 'The Sound', which for recent modest to low budget film viewings was one that was really quite creative. Executed right, 'The Sound' had potential to be quite decent. The cover/poster/advertising was attention grabbing and does make one want to see the film. Christopher Lloyd too is always watchable, despite being in a lot of bad projects in recent years.

It is unfortunate that 'The Sound' was yet another great potential waste, which is both frustrating and annoying. It doesn't come anywhere near close to being as attention grabbing as the cover/poster/advertising, makes a creative concept dull and ordinary and Lloyd is much better than this. Really wanted to like 'The Sound', but couldn't do it with such underwhelming execution of almost every component. Not all of them, but all but a few.

Rose McGowan is competent and Lloyd gives his limited character and screen time a lot of gusto.

First third of 'The Sound' is intriguing and creepy and some of the photography is atmospheric and slick enough.

The rest of the acting is not worth mentioning, Michael Eklund in particular spends the whole time looking like he was recovering from a hangover. The characters are sketchy at best and there is just nothing interesting or investable about them. Photography aside, 'The Sound' looks drab and like it was made in haste.

Dialogue is very stilted and muddled, the direction is pedestrian and after a promising start, the intrigue and suspense goes and the story for the rest of the film is a mess of incoherence, with too many things being vague, silliness and dreary pacing, complete with a rushed and petered out ending.

In summary, pretty weak. 3/10 Bethany Cox

This film is truly boring to watch. It so so boring that I forgot the title of it by the time it ended.

It is very rare there are no reasons to watch a film - even the awful ones - but this is one that has nothing going for it at all - not even anything amusingly awful. It is that bland.

The acting is exceedingly boring - apart from a brief appearance by Christopher Lloyd - which even then was bland because of the character he plays.

There were so many fundamental errors in what little relief from the tedium that it just make's one's brain uncreative as it goes in to 'can't be bothered' mode..

Really, no exaggeration, you would be more entertained by watching a gold fish swim around in it's bowl fro an hour. Even if someone were to describe the film from beginning to end there wouldn't be any spoilers .

I think I made it half an hour into the movie before the stream of incoherent hashtags had me rooting for the protagonist to get killed. There were a few brief interesting moments when Christopher Lloyd makes his entrance but the succession of characters that wander into the lack of a story just remind me of how unprepared our hero is for her adventure. As a "scientist" she should be worried about the real physical harm that can come to somebody wandering into "a rat infested pit covered with graffiti", to borrow a line from the movie. The story had some potential but it went nowhere for so long that no payoff could ever be worth the wait.

I would have liked to see this movie. Unfortunately, they budget didn't include lights and I probably missed most of the film because I couldn't see squat.

It started interestingly enough and had potential. (I will give it that much)

But in the end, it was probably better that I couldn't see much. The plot was pretty dumb, the effects were non-existent, and the only scary thing was the fact that someone spent money to produce this garbage.

This film is dull, cliché, messy, over long, nonsensical and, worst of all, unscary. I watched it to the end but it was all I could do to stay awake, let alone engage with this film. I can only think that Christopher Lloyd was in this film as a favour for a friend or needed to finance a loft conversion or something similar.

Not really worth your time.