Honestly the potential for this movie is huge. The London Underground is a terrifying place to be during the day let alone at night. So add Franka Potente stupidly falling asleep past the last train, a few homeless people and a dog, and surely you have the premise for a great horror film.
Oh dear....
***Contains Minor Spoilers*** First of all i'd like to say the first 45 minutes to this film is fantastic and full of suspense and eeriness that really did cause alarming edge of the seat stuff. The London Underground at its most fearsome. A place you really don't want to be in the early hours of the morning running away from some killer thats going round ripping his victims to shreds.
Going back to those 45 minutes. The movie had us asking ourselves. Is this really a human being we are seeing causing panic on the screen, or could it be something quite different? Not revealing the terror was the one thing they should of kept through the 90 minutes. Unfortunately they didn't do that...
And now comes for the 2nd 45 minutes.....
The terror is revealed and we start to laugh at the funny noises he starts to make as he runs round dark corners chasing after helpless Kate and trapped worker George (Vaz Blackwood). Revealing the killer was just too much for me to take. I stopped being scared of this film and found myself laughing at a few of the scenes that a short minority of viewers might find quite disturbing.
What the hell happened? I wont say much more because there really isn't much more to go on about in regards to the plot.
As for the acting, well i think Potente was terrible as the lead role. Her over the top emotion (and lack of it in some points) was a real let down in some vital scenes of the film. Vaz Blackwood was okay in the scenes he had, nothing special but at least there was a character that i cared about surviving. Paul Rattray provided the best acting in the film as the homeless Scotsman Jimmy. But sadly he didn't last too long.
This is a low budget film and i respect the film for trying to be different with the the small budget that it had. But unfortunately i can see people reacting to the film, especially the 2nd half, in the same manner as i accepted the film coming out of the cinema. Disappointed.
3/10 - Being generous largely due to the first 45 minutes
Oh dear....
***Contains Minor Spoilers*** First of all i'd like to say the first 45 minutes to this film is fantastic and full of suspense and eeriness that really did cause alarming edge of the seat stuff. The London Underground at its most fearsome. A place you really don't want to be in the early hours of the morning running away from some killer thats going round ripping his victims to shreds.
Going back to those 45 minutes. The movie had us asking ourselves. Is this really a human being we are seeing causing panic on the screen, or could it be something quite different? Not revealing the terror was the one thing they should of kept through the 90 minutes. Unfortunately they didn't do that...
And now comes for the 2nd 45 minutes.....
The terror is revealed and we start to laugh at the funny noises he starts to make as he runs round dark corners chasing after helpless Kate and trapped worker George (Vaz Blackwood). Revealing the killer was just too much for me to take. I stopped being scared of this film and found myself laughing at a few of the scenes that a short minority of viewers might find quite disturbing.
What the hell happened? I wont say much more because there really isn't much more to go on about in regards to the plot.
As for the acting, well i think Potente was terrible as the lead role. Her over the top emotion (and lack of it in some points) was a real let down in some vital scenes of the film. Vaz Blackwood was okay in the scenes he had, nothing special but at least there was a character that i cared about surviving. Paul Rattray provided the best acting in the film as the homeless Scotsman Jimmy. But sadly he didn't last too long.
This is a low budget film and i respect the film for trying to be different with the the small budget that it had. But unfortunately i can see people reacting to the film, especially the 2nd half, in the same manner as i accepted the film coming out of the cinema. Disappointed.
3/10 - Being generous largely due to the first 45 minutes
