Sutton's Case

The acting was a bit off and the dialogue was horrendous. Most of the movie is way too dark and very disorienting. This in combination with the flat character, makes for a drawn-out and boring watch. The story was bland and quite predictable - but it is the strong point in all of this. Although it has terrible pacing.

The sound design is laughably over-the-top with so much going on. There are badly timed and badly suited music playing from time to time, unsure if it was an attempt to tie with the story, but out of context, it makes for a really bad first impression.

The movie does not really pick up pace until it is over, and if it were not for the introduction of the second character, it would have been even less bearable.

This movie sucks so much that I've actually 629397 gone to the trouble of creating an IMDB account just specifically to give it a 1 star. The storyline is dull slash frustrating, the dialogue sucks, the lighting is crap, I could go on...

Protagonist Edward Sutton's narration tells us that that he is a detective at the local police department; since an injury on the job he has been off work. He has also become addicted to the painkillers he takes to treat his injury. He lives in a rundown apartment with his wife who is away on business. On the TV he hears a report about a child being kidnapped and the weather forecast warns of an approaching storm. He starts to hear noises coming from the basement and starts to investigate; what he finds convinces him that an horrendous crime took place there.

The central plot of this seventy seven minute long film is intriguing. For most of the film we are with Officer Sutton and see the story as he narrates it... how reliable a narrator he is isn't clear. He may be telling the truth as it happened; he may be paranoid, delusional or just lying... which of these is the case doesn't become apparent till the end... my assumption as to which changed more than once. This plot kept me interested although there are clear problems; much of the film is overly dark and the acting is fairly average. There are plenty of twists as the story reaches its climax not all of which were expected. Overall I thought it was decent enough considering I've heard of nobody involved in the production and it is clearly very low budget... so, not great but had enough to keep me entertained.

Wasted all that time watching this film. Seems very disorganised and like the ending they just run out of ideas. Had the potential to be a good film so it's a shame really.

What the hell did I just watch? Obviously very low budget and mostly shot in the pitch dark. The acting isn't good and even though the film is only 77 minutes long it feels like it goes on forever. Sutton is in his room, goes down to the basement, repeat.

A poor effort which becomes annoying very quickly. Avoid this mess.