Redistributors

I'm going to keep this review short. The movie entirely is not that good. The actors aren't good. I feel they were a let down. The story has a potential to be something really good. The only thing that stood out was the directing. It was actually pretty good and I can see some good potential in the director. Maybe over the years we could see an actual good movie from the director. Some parts of the film were lazy and sleazy. At one point I even saw the reflection of the camera man on a car window. It was pretty clearly visible. In all honesty I wouldn't recommend watching movie.

This is generally the kind of movie I like, but in this case, I quit halfway through it. From the beginning, everything is wrong. At the start, the protagonist walking to work tells us nothing about what is going to happen. The man who changes his mind and refuses to follow the company line when reading of a teleprompter tells of nothing either, except that there is something wrong with the company. That the business deal is going to fall apart if the investors figure out that the company is having financial issues is not a good reason to be hiring goods, et cetera. All the chasing makes no sense. The whole movie strikes me as an spaghetti thriller. One has to wonder if they are just trying to poke fun at the genre. Don't waste your time watching this movie. You will be thoroughly disgusted halfway through it.

So this movie is an interesting take on the corruption of military contractors and how corporate PR works in favor. It is sort of a thriller with something of a leftist political backdrop in terms of the plot. It definitely isn't a hollywood blockbuster and obviously had a limited budget but the director does a good job getting the story to progress and involving a cast of interesting characters.

More time could have been spent fleshing out the political scenarios and telling the backstory of the Redistributors. Their hacktivism wasn't particularly realistic in terms of its goals or attempts but the intention to portray them as a positive force fighting against corporate malfeasance was there. But I've seen much worse portrayals by almost every other big budget hollywood movie so I give some credit to at least portray them as humans. Attempting to tell a spy story and thriller on the other hand this movie isn't particularly realistic but the plot is adequate. Overall though this is a good effort for a first-time director without a hollywood budget and the cinematography and directing worked for me.