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Director: Vincenzo Natali
Release Date: 25 September 1998
Tagline: Fear… Paranoia… Suspicion… Desperation.
Main Cast:
Nicole de Boer … Joan Leaven
Nicky Guadagni … Helen Holloway
David Hewlet … David Worth
Andrew Miller … Kazan
Wayne Robson … Rennes
Maurice Dean Wint … Quentin
This is one of those rare films that I stumbled upon by accident and found myself absolutely loving it. Seven complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in a seemingly endless maze of cubes, some of which contain deadly traps. We know only as much as the protagonisits do and as the film progresses we learn why all the different characters have been placed there. They have to work as a team but as the fear and desperation builds, the basic human survival instinct begins to take hold. It’s simple yet brilliantly clever, and you get a real sense of building tension and claustrophobia throughout.
Cube will leave you thinking about it for a long time after,and you’ll find yourself with a lasting feeling that you have watched something so unusual and clever that you will want to see it again.
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Director: David Fincher
Release Date: 18 May 2007
Tagline: There’s more than one way to lose your life to a killer.
Main Cast:
Jake Gyllenhaal … Robert Graysmith
Mark Ruffalo … Inspector David Toschi
Anthony Edwards … Inspector William Armstrong
Robert Downey Jr … Paul Avery
This is a rather interesting film that is based on Robert Graysmith’s books on the Zodiac serial killer of the 1960s & 1970s. It’s a very atmospheric film that, due to the fact that the case remains unsolved, focuses mainly on the investigation. The murders are treated with respect and are not sensationalised in any way. I wasn’t overly familiar with the case before watching the film, and so I had no preconceived ideas as to who the killer might be, and how he managed to evade arrest and conviction.
The acting, on the whole, was good and Jake Gyllenhaal was, as always, excellent. My biggest gripe with the whole film though was the largely incoherent dialogue; the worst offender being Robert Downey Jr, who mumbled his way through the whole film and also delivered half of his lines through a cigarette. Fortunately though, his role is mostly in the first half of the film, and things do improve somewhat later on. There were also many times that the background noise and score were too loud, which resulted in difficulty in hearing the actors and made following the story very difficult. In a way, I shouldn’t be surprised at this, as I thought that the dialogue at the start of Se7en was incoherent too.
Overall, Zodiac is a well handled film that has left me wanting to know more about the case, and, despite the mumbling, I enjoyed it.
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Director: John Stockwell
Release Date: 21 October 2005
Tagline: Temptation is bliss.
Main Cast:
Paul Walker … Jared
Jessica Alba … Sam
Scott Caan … Bryce
Ashley Scott … Amanda
There are times when I like to watch a film with little or no substance, so I decided to give this a go. I liked Jessica Alba in Dark Angel, so that drew me to it as well. To be honest, I was expecting a pretty bad film, so I was pleasantly surprised when I actually found myself enjoying it! The plot is fairly basic and uncomplicated, yet with a bit of a twist, which is what you want out of a film like this.
It’s beautifully shot and, of course, Walker and Alba are very easy on the eye, so it’s a visual treat!
Into The Blue may not be an intellectually challenging film, but it is a very good popcorn movie.
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