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What I liked best about this


was really not having a clue, in the end, who was pulling the strings, and for what purpose. I thought Colin Salmon did a great job in creating a very layered character in maybe five minutes of screen time. I think he added a lot more than what was in the script.

The direction - well, it feels like a first time effort, and the action movie clichés were a bit heavy handed, but a short is like a pen and ink sketch as opposed to an oil painting, and a few tropes cut down on the amount of backstory needed.

It was only on the second time through that I realized that James had said "Let him go." at the end. So was it code for what ultimately happened, or was the shooter following their own impulse? And which is more disturbing? I'd love to see a feature length version of this.

Cumberbatch, as usual, raised the IQ of the whole street by being involved. (I just watched Star Trek Into Darkness - he does the same for that movie, and I'm a Trek fan.) But I like the dichotomy of him being a BAMF and clueless at the same time.

Worth the $2.99 I spent to download it. . .
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Cumberbatch, as usual, raised the IQ of the whole street by being involved.


AMAZING!!!

What did me in me was when he reverted to his old self in a nano second, his whole face changed. There was no confusion or hesitancy in his "real" persona. OUTRAGEOUS

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