Have you ever seen a movie that left no impression on you at all? Something not good enough to enjoy but not bad enough to bother complaining about? Director Ellie Kanner’s Wake is one of those movies that you’ll quickly forget about and never mention again. There is nothing interesting or memorable about this film at all.
The first scene starts out rather promising, with our leading lady Carys (Bijou Phillips) laid out on a slab at a funeral home, while the mortician makes up her face. She’s not dead. She just likes to lie there while her infatuated friend Shane (Danny Masterson) touches her up with his undertaking skills. She asks him about upcoming wakes and funerals because she likes to attend them.
At this point, you may be thinking that you’re in for an enjoyably morbid comedy about someone obsessed with death, such as...
The first scene starts out rather promising, with our leading lady Carys (Bijou Phillips) laid out on a slab at a funeral home, while the mortician makes up her face. She’s not dead. She just likes to lie there while her infatuated friend Shane (Danny Masterson) touches her up with his undertaking skills. She asks him about upcoming wakes and funerals because she likes to attend them.
At this point, you may be thinking that you’re in for an enjoyably morbid comedy about someone obsessed with death, such as...
- 4/21/2010
- by Rob Young
- JustPressPlay.net
DVD Playhouse—April 2010
By
Allen Gardner
Ride With The Devil (Criterion) Ang Lee’s revisionist take on the Civil War is awash in moral ambiguity, along with some stunning cinematography, production design, and fine performances. Set during the Kansas-Missouri border war, Tobey Maguire and Skeet Ulrich star as two friends who join up with the Confederate-sympathizing Bushwhackers, finding an odd ally in a former slave (Jeffrey Wright). While it’s fascinating to see America’s bloodiest conflict through the eyes of a foreigner, thereby allowing much of the previously mentioned ambiguity a certain latitude, the film never loses the bad taste it leaves for one simple reason: it asks us, the audience, to side with not just the Confederates, but some of the lowest trash that made up the dregs, and the fringes, of the movement. Big points for audacity, but snake eyes on the story itself. Singer Jewel is impressive in her film debut.
By
Allen Gardner
Ride With The Devil (Criterion) Ang Lee’s revisionist take on the Civil War is awash in moral ambiguity, along with some stunning cinematography, production design, and fine performances. Set during the Kansas-Missouri border war, Tobey Maguire and Skeet Ulrich star as two friends who join up with the Confederate-sympathizing Bushwhackers, finding an odd ally in a former slave (Jeffrey Wright). While it’s fascinating to see America’s bloodiest conflict through the eyes of a foreigner, thereby allowing much of the previously mentioned ambiguity a certain latitude, the film never loses the bad taste it leaves for one simple reason: it asks us, the audience, to side with not just the Confederates, but some of the lowest trash that made up the dregs, and the fringes, of the movement. Big points for audacity, but snake eyes on the story itself. Singer Jewel is impressive in her film debut.
- 4/16/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
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