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This movie angered me (Spoilers)

posted 9 years ago by spryisfly
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I expected a meaty whodunit or a "whose-gonna-do-it" if you wanna be technical. I love the main actors in this movie. And they played their roles perfectly.
I have difficulty with the script and some of the characters and some of their actions. There too many characters. It became obvious after about 10 minutes that I was gonna be trying to guess who the guy in the confessional was. And that took away my ability to truly focus on the movie and it's point. It was just too messy & busy. It was too much meat!
The last 20 minutes just irritated me. The murderer was Chris O'Dowd just like I thought in the beginning. Too freaking obvious - he's the butcher! Brilliant acting though. And, C'mon...the stupid priest KNOWS who wants to kill him the whole time. He never makes an attempt to reach out to him and help HIM like he does the other characters.
The priest wisely decides to fly away before Sunday, but changes his mind, walks to meat his murderer right after throwing his gun in the sea. He's basically committing suicide. And then the ambiguous ending. OMG! I get that it was about forgiveness. I just feel the writer played cheap tricks throughout the movie & ended up NOT surprising me.
I have a hard time saying that this wasn't a good movie. It just really made me want to yell at the scream.

[–] DeepCinema 9 years ago

Lol! Funny how you misspelled "meet" as "meat" after mentioning the Butcher!

And I appreciate your frustration: some films just make you want to toss the crockery!

Especially if they hold as much promise as this one...

[–] spryisfly 9 years ago

I found the misspelling hilarious as well. I also made an error when I was trying to type "screen"... it's as if I had two Freudian slips...LOL

My Disappointment, now that I've had 2 days to think about everything packed into the movie IS because it really held so much promise...just like you said.

[–] DeepCinema 9 years ago

I saw it months ago now and believe me, the frustration hasn't cooled over time.

[–] maltlooter 9 years ago

I respect your opinion, but I didn't see the killer as being obvious. Towards the end there was so much tension that it could have been anybody.

I loved it, though it wasn't a feel good ending.

[–] BlueLightAlarm 9 years ago

I had no idea who the killer was going to be. Even in the beech when he was walking toward the priest, I thought it was the angry father from the car for a couple of seconds before I realised who it really was.

[–] tx3089 9 years ago

Same here! thought it was the angry father that had his daughter visiting.

[–] PsychoDingo 8 years ago

You expected a meaty whodunnit and are angry that there was too much meat.

Alllllllllllllrighty then.

[–] leeleepowerz 8 years ago

I knew Chris O'Dowd was in the film and recognised his voice from like the first line so I was watching the film from the perspective of already believing it was him, so I didn't experience it with an undertone (overtone??) of mystery. That probably aided my perspective of it I think, because I focused more on the cinematography, characterisation and performances, which I all really really loved, so it was more like a moody character drama and it worked really well in that setting, I feel.

Also, I don't feel it was really made to be a whodunnit anyway. He doesn't go on a quest to find his eventual murderer and put a stop to it. It's much more about his own personal journey leading up to his eventual death.

I'm sorry that you missed out on that by being distracted by the mystery! :P

[–] guccipix 8 years ago

I knew Chris O'Dowd was in the film and recognised his voice from like the first line

Someone else filmed that scene, it wasn't his voice.

http://letterboxd.com/guccipix/list/my-top-100-favorite-films/

[–] leeleepowerz 8 years ago

Oh really? I didn't know that! It sounded a lot like him to me haha