face-819-933726 Review of Burning Daylight

Burning Daylight (2010)

Lackluster daylight is wasted, and never burns bright enough.

[4/10 · 1 April 2014]

This is a group of short stories, or vignettes, all sort of focused around trust, and three different sides of the results. The first is a very short little The Treasure of the Sierra Madre story of greed, and two best friends who suddenly have to decide whether or not to share a treasure and of the three stories I Enjoyed this one, only because of the two men who play these confused friends. The second story centers on a woman home alone who finds a man lurking in her house, and this one is supposed to be about our human instinct for survival, but it does not make a lot of sense if you are actually able to stomach sitting through the whole thing, it just ends. The last is the name sake of this movie, the very obvious, and slightly over acted story of Burning Daylight who has worked hard mining in the Klondike only to return to New York looking to invest his money to make more. This last story is not as bad as number 2, though only barely. The story is just too obvious, and there are absolutely no consequences for anyone in the movie once it has come full circle which still does not get resolved either. So I do not recommend this movie sadly as it is a fine Canadian production that just went wrong, and never righted again. Watch anything else.