Magic Hour (I) (2015)
4/10
EASINESS WITH A CAIPTAL "E"
20 May 2018
Warning: Spoilers
The movie takes place in Venice Beach, 1990. Ray (Trevor Morgan) has recently graduated from film school and befriends Oliver Fox (Elias Brett) on the beach. Oliver introduces him to his family of brothers who we saw in the opening scene robbing a night club. Through circumstances, Ray becomes part of crime family at a time when their numbers are diminishing. The last scene lacks closure as if this was going to become a series or is a pilot film or they ran out of money to film.

This is a low budget film and all the action scenes are cut. They set a car on fire, but we never see a single flame. The robberies are incomplete. In spite of the action promising DVD cover, this was more drama and not the best crime drama either. Writer/ Director Cole Mueller has made a similar film called "Green Guys" with some of the same cast. I would assume if you saw that film, you would feel the same about this one.

For me this film was slow. The characters were real enough and at times so real they were boring. Perhaps a dark comical moment was when one of the characters wants to go straight while his girlfriend insists otherwise.

Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.
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