A Secret Handshake

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.

This movie feels like it was a senior art school project conceived and executed on too much acid. If it had been 15 minutes long I might have appreciated it as amusing but thankfully it went on long enough to exhibit every possible limitation of writing, acting and directing ability that this team could share. With a bit more effort at emotion on the "actors" parts, that is if they weren't just friends of the director, it could have claimed to be camp. I guess I watched the whole thing, while asking myself why many times, because I couldn't give up hope that there was some point to my torture only to be rewarded with an ending just a couple steps up from it was just a dream, on the triteometer. And what's up with both the director and writer having the same first name: Harsha? Is that Hindi for, 'Don't make a movie with a someone who's also named Harsha'?

This movie was t e r r i b l e! The acting was...*shudder*. And that's a shudder in a bad way FYI. The receptionist at Jacob's workplace was probably the best act in the entire film. Jacob's relationship with his hot, young wife is far from believable, and the "scary, suspenseful" scenes made me laugh out loud. The love scenes looked like something from a softcore porn channel (oh yes, I know)

Better acting can be found in the Incident in Lake County.

If I could bash this movie any more, I would. I just lack the vocabulary, grammar, and time

*shakes head*

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.

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.