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sigh.
i thought this film was 3D and i was missing something because i'm watching it in 2D now. but in fact it was never 3D. i'm sure at some point it'll get translated for that if the technology stays around.
and it would probably be worth watching then. hell, i'm sure a lot of people would like this despite.
for my 2 cents: i hated too much about this movie to get into it. for me its a case of watching a script writer and an actor try to convince me that they have a clue about something that i know intimately. and they fail miserably at it. its absolutely clear these people know almost nothing about photography or the art world and its just annoying. i can make some leaps of faith...their understanding of new york is simpleton at best. although i can buy that they're trying to create a similarity rather than a physical reality. but honestly there are too many dumb mistakes of all sorts to buy into this.
for instance: scene friggin' one...man (from his perspective mostly) on the subway gets up looks to the front of the car, begins walking that way and slips on a massive pool of blood that he didn't bother to see. then gets up and slips around a bunch....and so forth... ok so right away an obvious error...and no its not the fact that he didn't see the giant pool of blood (i'll give them this as possible) nor that this subway car is soo full of blood theres no possible way of cleaning it so people wouldn't notice (that is more or less explained later in the movie); its this: when the guy looks to the front of the car he sees a normal subway car front, and right after he gets up from falling he sees it again and theres a huge spattered streak of blood all over it that wasn't there a few seconds ago. how'd it get there? well we weren't suppose to notice it a first so they just filmed it without. f**k off! do they really think we wouldn't notice?....i noticed immediately. its not that hard to do this in a number of different ways...this was just plain lazy. and thats the very first scene.
i won't even get started on the horrible parody of photography and the 'art scene'. that was just so freakin' off it wasn't even comic book worthy.
the 'oh my god, everything is so crazy. i figured out this crime and its like a conspiracy' moment in this film is weak...very weak...acting/directing. shameful laziness.
the filming has some interesting style but is so completely heavily dependent on cg effects that at times it seems more like a cartoon than a movie. not just overdone but way over overdone.
and then the throwback to the 80's 'shock you' 'wtf?' ending was....silly frankly.
this could've been good. and if your in the mood for a mindless slasher maybe it still is, but for me there were simply too many problems. too many things that made me annoyed by this film.
i read somewhere (when i was looking for info on whether this was supposed to be 3D) that the budget on this was $15 million and its only made $75,000 or so. its not that bad really. there shouldn't have been that much spent on it, but still i've seen worse.
i don't know. i guess watch it but don't expect to love it or even like it.
3/10
