Now the 15 shills have finished hampering an honest value of this film undeterred I will undertake to do a true reccy, and if I make it back to base will report back my findings but only if I can be arsed.
I think this will end up being a 3/10, the black eye make-up might tip the scales to a 4 but only if plenty of goths are attracted.
So, what's your verdict?
Saw it was available to d/l but the trailer looked kinda silly.
Blimey give me chance to put me slippers on I ain't that quick. Well I'm 30 minutes in and so far it's just two paddy's rabbiting about anything and everything with an 'F' bomb in every other word. I counted 30+ in the first 10 minutes.
Obviously very low budget they enter the private grounds of a luxury residence and shoot the security guard, you don't see anything other than after a gun shot red fluid splatters the camera lens. I'm just where the one guy jumps into the pool and is about to hack up the dead security guard with an axe, I don't know why but to be honest I've already lost interest, but I may continue another day.
I was definitely engrossed from the beginning. As an American I had to get used to the thick accents but that was my problem, not the movie's. It started a tad slow but I thought was pretty much fully realized by the second act. A lot of twists, and every one made the tension between the two main characters more palpable. Personally I enjoyed the kind of "descent into nihilism" the seasoned mercenary experienced.
I dunno, if you don't like movies that focus on dialogue, you probably won't dig this. But me, I found it a ride worth taking.
The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery. -Fred Alan Wolf
I assumed both actors would put on an American/British accent, so when I heard the thick Irish with the perfectly natural sounding excessive swearing, I grinned, but figured this will fail with all but the most forgiving of foreign audiences.
I think I get what the director was trying to do and though I suspect he had a decent enough concept to get the project greenlit (it's been done before and I suspect the "twists" were there to add some sense of originality), but didn't have a completely fleshed out script.
I'm a big believer in that originality matters less if the story is well told. This isn't quite there. It's just appealing enough so that when it begins to flounder it isn't that disappointing.
Decent performances, nothing spectacular, maybe they could have shown more with a better screenplay.