Inheritance

Using only iPhones for filming definitely gives this project a unique flavour, a distinctive identity, especially from a filmmaking perspective.

All the events come across as raw, the moments feel unfiltered, making scenes resemble more of a vlog you would find on someone's YouTube channel rather than a traditional movie meant for theaters and home entertainment.

However, it falls short in all other facets.

There's lack of real tension, screenplay is pretty bland, and it misses that sense of stakes and intensity. Plus, I just didn't feel invested in the characters or the journeys they had to take.

Inheritance is the new thriller by the talented Mr. Burger with an international setting which was shot with an iPhone.

The film was fun in parts, with an interesting premise and a tense chasing scene being the highlights.

Unfortunately i found the writing lazy with stereotypical characters, predictable twists and a "gotcha" finale that you can see coming from miles away.

What i didn't "get" also was the "shot with an iPhone" choice. It didn't add anything new in the handheld camera style cinematography. On the contrary, the image quality on the big screen, especially during the dark scenes and scenes with high contrast was problematic and distracting, looking cheap instead of realistic.

I would recommend this film, if you don't have anything more interesting to see.

Forgettable film from start to finish , besides being in Egypt, India and South Korea. It is true that there is no tension sauf a little in Egypt and more of it in India. I don't know why this movie was made considering what happens in the end.

Is it iPhone filming prowess advertisement? Does it bear a hidden message? Is it a sort of wicked encouragement?

At least, I got to travel without a visa to three beautiful countries glued to Maya.

• Screenplay/storyline/plots: 5
• Production value/impact: 4.5
• Development: 6.5
• Realism: 5
• Entertainment: 6
• Acting: 6
• Filming/photography/cinematography: 7
• VFX: 7.5
• Music/score/sound: 6
• Depth: 3
• Logic: 2
• Flow: 7
• Drama/mini thriller/conspiracy/mini action: 5
• Ending: 3.

I thought the filming of the movie was very interesting. It had a decent plot and an interesting twist. I think it's a unique independent movie. It was fun to watch people's reactions to them filming, they just filmed in the streets of Cairo and Mumbai (not a closed set). I felt like I was really there in the scenes with the character.

I also felt like the dialogue wasn't that bad. They had a decent script that wasn't cheesy.

It's a good movie to sit back and enjoy when you can't find anything else to watch. Also interesting to see Phoebe Dynevor in this type of action film. I think it's worth the watch.

Well, it's interesting to me that they shot this spy thriller with an iPhone in four different countries, but the whole espionage element of it is found lacking. The guerrilla-styled framing is solid when Maya (Phoebe Dynevor) is busy fleeing from cops, baddies, and whoever's after her. A bike-taxi scene set in Delhi is particularly well done. But the same can't be said for the film overall, given how much it depends on contrivances and happenstance.

I mean, I wouldn't complain having to watch Dynevor's (flawless-looking) close-ups for 90 minutes straight though there should've been more meat to the plot than its current barebones version. The bland third act bogs it down further, only to be upended by a last-minute, albeit predictable twist. Neil Burger is undoubtedly a capable filmmaker, but his last few flicks have failed to hit the mark. I'm excited to see Phoebe in M Night Shyamalan's next with Jake Gyllenhaal.