video review : The Invisible Man

video review : The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man’s best moments are its two most surprising ones. The first involves a girl being punched in the face. The second involves a woman getting her throat slit. There’s also a poignant scene involving an email message. They’re dramatic highlights in a movie that is otherwise a bit of a mess.

What’s nearly as unbelievable as a woman claiming her dead abusive ex-boyfriend is alive and invisibly stalking her; it would help if Cecilia’s role were played by someone pretty; are some of these gaping plot holes. By the end, this psychological thriller, which begins interestingly enough, has gotten rather silly.

my rating : 3 of 5

2020

video review : Meadowland

video review : Meadowland

A man and woman lose their kid. That’s not a euphemism for death. They literally lose him at a gas station one day. The presumption is that he was kidnapped; the premise for a potentially engrossing story; but director Reed Morano ruins it by skipping to the boring epilogue. That means we’re forced to watch the parents mope as uneventful month by uneventful month goes by.

The movie focuses more on the woman, played by Olivia Wilde, as she goes down a spiral that is odd and a little absurd. Eating old cookie crumbs, smoking crack, having sex with strangers; her naked ass in the sex scene is the best part; and stalking little boys may be a part of her personality, but it seems unlikely simply losing a child of her own would make her do such things.

my rating : 2 of 5

2015