autoscopic
This movie had been in my watch list for quite some time because it sounded interesting and I like Nick Stahl and Rose Mcgowan
So to I decided to watch it today. I think this movie had potential, at the core, if it went a different way. Overall, I finished it and wish I chose something else to watch. I didn't like the camera work. A lot of the movie doesn't make sense until the end, which I don't mind/ was expecting, but I was hoping for the revelation or whatever at the end to be worth while, which I don't think it was, It made me understand somethings but it didn't make the movie any better. People were saying this movie was strange, I like strange but ugh no, this movie was just pretty crappy and i hate the feeling i have when i finish a movie that i didn't like, but I guess that's just the way it is.
Wizard-8
"Dead Awake" is one of the strangest movies I have seen in quite some time. Obviously, it was inspired by "The Sixth Sense", though the mystery angle has been increased, as well as with its strangeness. It's directed in a really bizarre way, in an anonymous style (and with anonymous locations) that for the longest time made me think the movie was shot in a foreign country and the filmmakers were trying hard to disguise things. Stranger, however, is the screenplay. While the big questions the movie brings up are eventually answered, there are several minor questions that remained unanswered, like the mysterious policeman character at the beginning as well as the status of Nick Stahl's character at the end of the movie. While the movie is offbeat enough to make its ninety-two minutes never boring, in the end I feel most viewers will be unsatisfied because it doesn't quite give enough explanation.
fookthenet
It boggles the mind that movies this bad continue to get made. One can only wonder, can anyone write or tell (direct) a coherent story in Hollywood these days? The description for this movie talks about the main character faking his own death, and indeed there is a single scene that deals with this intriguing idea. But the movie is more about death and atonement for one's choices while living.There are plot holes you could drive a sixteen wheeler through, including the main character being shot twice at point blank range and not suffering so much as a scratch; and a would be guardian angel, who though dead, can register vitals on hospital equipment and interact with the living as a normal living human being (for ten years, no less).Mix in some David Lynch-ian like purposely nebulous confusion and you've got a recipe for the typical piece of **** film that leaves the viewer wondering: "are the writers really this stupid, or is it just them trying to be too clever by half".The only silver lining for me was that my girlfriend got it for free with a coupon deal at Redbox. Mercifully, we paid nothing to view it, which is exactly what it was worth.
heartspill
The only thing I can say about this: random. The story is pretty random and the execution is pretty poor. The story skips and jumps around like a rubber ball and there is no consistency in the characters. The acting is so awful that the makers had to resort to in-your-face scoring to push the viewer into the mood they couldn't achieve through good story telling. Nothing adds up in the end and you're left with a feeling that neither writer nor director have have any idea about how to make a compelling movie.But what really ruined the movie for me were the two Irish characters. Brian Lynner as Decko was just as untalented as a B-class actor can get and his Irish accent was a completely annoying farce. Mixing Scottish and a few local Irish accents just made me want to turn off the sound every time that guy opened his mouth. Who ever casted him should hang their heads in shame. Same goes for the character of his wife, whose name I am too lazy to look up.Do yourself a favor and skip this one. This movie is boring, unimaginative and annoying.
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