Wtf did I just watch for 105 mins?? Paint drying on a wall has better pacing than this mess. I kept waiting for something to happen, anything, a heart beat... but nothing, except crickets.
Writer and director Annie Silverstein's only filmmaking experience is short films, and she should stick to those, as this film needed to be a short. 90 min of filler, only 15 min of substance, and that's being generous. The unnecessarily long dragged out scenes became very annoying, I literally had to 2x and 4x FFW in search of anything substantial. What was the point of this story that it needed to be produced into a full length film? We've seen this type of movie many times, and done that many times better. The trailer even looked bland - and this film was even blander, but I gave it a chance from reading praise from the critics. Were they on happy pills when they reviewed this? Sure it wasn't no Hollywood action packed drama or thriller - I didn't expect that from the trailer, but a coming of age story with this type of terrible writing stretched out to a 105 minute screenplay, was just unbearable and a waste of my 105 mins I will never get back. And the ending - one of the dumbest and pointless I've seen. All that did was seal my IMDb rating.
Silverstein was also the worst director in directing her cast - particularly amateur Amber Havard, of which this film was her first. Her monotonic, expressionless, stale and dull acting made the slow dragged out scenes that much more unbearable, I wanted to stick pencils in my eyes! It's not her fault, it's 100% the directors job to get their cast right. Her character needed a better seasoned director, or cast someone more experienced that can hold their own.
The editing was terrible, the score - was there even a score? Even the cinematography was bland. This has to be one of the worst films I've seen. It's a very generous 3/10 from me.
Writer and director Annie Silverstein's only filmmaking experience is short films, and she should stick to those, as this film needed to be a short. 90 min of filler, only 15 min of substance, and that's being generous. The unnecessarily long dragged out scenes became very annoying, I literally had to 2x and 4x FFW in search of anything substantial. What was the point of this story that it needed to be produced into a full length film? We've seen this type of movie many times, and done that many times better. The trailer even looked bland - and this film was even blander, but I gave it a chance from reading praise from the critics. Were they on happy pills when they reviewed this? Sure it wasn't no Hollywood action packed drama or thriller - I didn't expect that from the trailer, but a coming of age story with this type of terrible writing stretched out to a 105 minute screenplay, was just unbearable and a waste of my 105 mins I will never get back. And the ending - one of the dumbest and pointless I've seen. All that did was seal my IMDb rating.
Silverstein was also the worst director in directing her cast - particularly amateur Amber Havard, of which this film was her first. Her monotonic, expressionless, stale and dull acting made the slow dragged out scenes that much more unbearable, I wanted to stick pencils in my eyes! It's not her fault, it's 100% the directors job to get their cast right. Her character needed a better seasoned director, or cast someone more experienced that can hold their own.
The editing was terrible, the score - was there even a score? Even the cinematography was bland. This has to be one of the worst films I've seen. It's a very generous 3/10 from me.