feardotcom (2002)
It's The Cell all over again: An interesting and stylish visual scheme harnessed to an astoundingly stupid screenplay. At least this one has the good sense to make its stylistic inspiration parallel that of its screenplay's idiocy, so that the film gets more artistically accomplished as the plot goes down the toilet. (This was one of the drawbacks to The Cell -- as soon as the script fell to pieces, the visual scheme stopped being innovative.) Stephen Dorff and Natasha McElhone more or less deserve to get stuck in films like this, but what the hell is Stephen Rea doing here? Man cannot live on Neil Jordan films alone, I suppose, but still. I see it as an improvement over director William Malone's last film (House on Haunted Hill), but he's still just a talented hack.
Grade: C
It's The Cell all over again: An interesting and stylish visual scheme harnessed to an astoundingly stupid screenplay. At least this one has the good sense to make its stylistic inspiration parallel that of its screenplay's idiocy, so that the film gets more artistically accomplished as the plot goes down the toilet. (This was one of the drawbacks to The Cell -- as soon as the script fell to pieces, the visual scheme stopped being innovative.) Stephen Dorff and Natasha McElhone more or less deserve to get stuck in films like this, but what the hell is Stephen Rea doing here? Man cannot live on Neil Jordan films alone, I suppose, but still. I see it as an improvement over director William Malone's last film (House on Haunted Hill), but he's still just a talented hack.
Grade: C
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