This is not an impressed work without layers in it. The though of random crimes happened is plausible. But it alone is not enough to contrive a powerful story.
Before leading to fatal incidences, preludes were required. The lack of depictions of two main characters made those cruel scenes rather abrupt and incoherent. There are common traits of psychopathic behaviors would be easily deployed to explicate those inhuman actions.
This movie has shadows of "Straw Dogs". I did read Roger Ebert's review of "Straw Dogs". He disapproved how human mind was portrayed in that movie. Hence, he disliked it. I did not agree with him entirely because it did give me lasting thrills when I watched it in 70's. I was in my teens and movies did not have ratings then. I could feel distortions of such human behaviors might happen when certain circumstances were given. However, this one besides some uneventful incidences leading to abrupt murders, there were little traces of causes. It felt like psychopathic villains were everywhere in the movie. Of course, it was not supposed to be.
This movie somehow desensitized human cruelty. It is misleading. Without processes of human minds weakened the supposedly well thought out plots. The director intended to show audiences circumstances driving characters into acting cruelly. Nevertheless, that was all too simple without any insights of criminal minds. Good thrillers should have multiple layers of stories led to tragic ends. Violent acts should not be injected abruptly without any explanations. The storyline was somehow innovative but implementations were short of reasoning.
Understated human mind might be the problem of this movie.
Before leading to fatal incidences, preludes were required. The lack of depictions of two main characters made those cruel scenes rather abrupt and incoherent. There are common traits of psychopathic behaviors would be easily deployed to explicate those inhuman actions.
This movie has shadows of "Straw Dogs". I did read Roger Ebert's review of "Straw Dogs". He disapproved how human mind was portrayed in that movie. Hence, he disliked it. I did not agree with him entirely because it did give me lasting thrills when I watched it in 70's. I was in my teens and movies did not have ratings then. I could feel distortions of such human behaviors might happen when certain circumstances were given. However, this one besides some uneventful incidences leading to abrupt murders, there were little traces of causes. It felt like psychopathic villains were everywhere in the movie. Of course, it was not supposed to be.
This movie somehow desensitized human cruelty. It is misleading. Without processes of human minds weakened the supposedly well thought out plots. The director intended to show audiences circumstances driving characters into acting cruelly. Nevertheless, that was all too simple without any insights of criminal minds. Good thrillers should have multiple layers of stories led to tragic ends. Violent acts should not be injected abruptly without any explanations. The storyline was somehow innovative but implementations were short of reasoning.
Understated human mind might be the problem of this movie.