I love comedy, I love sci-fi, I love drama, I love action. This had all of those elements. It also had a great cast and a really good premise. However, the execution was not stellar. It looked good, even if the graininess got a little annoying, but the sound was awful. And the script. There's a good message in there, but it kind of falls flat. So, Fontaine's little brother was killed by the police. That took me out of it, espeically once you get to the reveal at the end, because the excuse given would Hage worked SO much better if they had the brother killed in a drive by. It would have gotten more of a message across AND made sense for the story.
I also feel that the movie felt slightly disjointed right after the first scene with Kifer. It jumped to another scene and it felt like there was a chunk of the movie missing. And one thing I always ask myself when writing or watching a movie is "would removing this character change the movie at all?" Well, the answer is NO, it wouldn't. It just felt like they wanted a "white" bad guy. He was basically just there to say the control words used in the finale.
I also feel like it was 20 minutes too long. Too many non-essential elements. Or, I would like to have seen those cut and more story brought in.
And for me, the biggest sin is the introduction of the characters. None of them were likeable. Don't get me wrong, you can have unlikable characters, but there has to be some kind of immediate connection with them, good or bad. I didn't really care about any of them until about 30 plus minutes into the movie. If you're going have bad/ obnoxious/ annoying characters, make them stand out. Lots of movies have likeable villains and unlikable heroes that you still care about.
And the more I watched this, the more it felt like just taking Get Out and Us, and making them one movie.
Just my 2 cents.
I also feel that the movie felt slightly disjointed right after the first scene with Kifer. It jumped to another scene and it felt like there was a chunk of the movie missing. And one thing I always ask myself when writing or watching a movie is "would removing this character change the movie at all?" Well, the answer is NO, it wouldn't. It just felt like they wanted a "white" bad guy. He was basically just there to say the control words used in the finale.
I also feel like it was 20 minutes too long. Too many non-essential elements. Or, I would like to have seen those cut and more story brought in.
And for me, the biggest sin is the introduction of the characters. None of them were likeable. Don't get me wrong, you can have unlikable characters, but there has to be some kind of immediate connection with them, good or bad. I didn't really care about any of them until about 30 plus minutes into the movie. If you're going have bad/ obnoxious/ annoying characters, make them stand out. Lots of movies have likeable villains and unlikable heroes that you still care about.
And the more I watched this, the more it felt like just taking Get Out and Us, and making them one movie.
Just my 2 cents.
