Ölümlü Dünya was an ambitious work and worked very well despite some wrong turns because mainly it has so much energy in it. It is probably due to actors' performances and action part.
Now considering this movie, it is still an unusual piece for Turkish cinema but i don't think it works well as Ali Atay's previous film. We can definitely feel his ambition regarding cinematography, score, sense of realism. However, all those parts should be supplementary to the script and characters so the film would be great which cannot be said for this movie. Comparing with Ölümlü Dünya again, there are less striking characters in this movie and some pacing problems really dragged me off from the film's ambience. Script had a simple but effective premise, serial killer in Turkey. It is sometimes a conversation matter because the issue is so alien to Turkey and it would be am interesting thing to think on just like Turks in space, however the serious aspects of this script and highly verbal humour of the writing crew had trouble balancing each other at the first half of the film and realism gave its seat to comedy completely at the second half. The on the nose resolutiom of the film tried to help balance again and summatize the whole mess but its execution was a little bit flat.
I want to be supportive and dwell on the good notes but the director and his new writing buddies need to do more to get a better developed script. Dialogues are superb, charachters work most of the time but events need some work.
Now considering this movie, it is still an unusual piece for Turkish cinema but i don't think it works well as Ali Atay's previous film. We can definitely feel his ambition regarding cinematography, score, sense of realism. However, all those parts should be supplementary to the script and characters so the film would be great which cannot be said for this movie. Comparing with Ölümlü Dünya again, there are less striking characters in this movie and some pacing problems really dragged me off from the film's ambience. Script had a simple but effective premise, serial killer in Turkey. It is sometimes a conversation matter because the issue is so alien to Turkey and it would be am interesting thing to think on just like Turks in space, however the serious aspects of this script and highly verbal humour of the writing crew had trouble balancing each other at the first half of the film and realism gave its seat to comedy completely at the second half. The on the nose resolutiom of the film tried to help balance again and summatize the whole mess but its execution was a little bit flat.
I want to be supportive and dwell on the good notes but the director and his new writing buddies need to do more to get a better developed script. Dialogues are superb, charachters work most of the time but events need some work.