A good movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it seemed to be intriguing, I thought I might as well check it out. In fact, it was not the first movie I saw completely shot in first-person perspective (I saw at least two of them called ‘Zusje’ and ‘Thomas est amoureux’) but the damned thing was still seriously original even if I have to admit that this experiment was not completely successful. Indeed, the whole thing was pretty much constantly disorienting, often nauseating and sometimes borderline unwatchable but I still enjoyed most of it though. Indeed, the makers went actually beyond the whole first-person gimmick and it was probably the first movie I saw during which the action was pretty much non-stop. As a result, it was quite unpredictable and it had such a wild energy. Seriously, it felt sometimes like watching some kind of weird Punk nightmare and it is actually a compliment. Concerning the plot, between the first-person view and the non-stop action scenes, there was not much room for it which was an obvious choice from the makers but this approach didn’t really bother me. Still, what was left from the plot was sometimes pretty weak. Indeed, it was so obvious that Hayley Bennett was not who she was from the start and Akan was such a pathetic bad guy with some really lame and actually completely unnecessary kinetic powers. Concerning Shartlo Copley, I was also not so sure, to be honest. I mean, the South African actor was the perfect choice to play the sidekick of the main character and he was entertaining through the whole duration but was the whole cloning thing really necessary? Basically, it was an excuse to have Copley play a whole bunch of various characters but it would have been more effective if he kept playing the same character. Anyway, to conclude, I guess the damned thing is probably an acquired taste but I thought it was seriously wild and entertaining and it is definitely worth a look.