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Sum of Existence (2005)
Remember to forget this!
I appreciate privately made films, I do it myself, but sometimes you wonder even what the cameramen were thinking when they were filming!
Before I go into the bad details, the writer is due some credit. Sure, it is an intriguing idea, kidnapping and rape does create a good drama, but they have to be handled correctly. I think J.D. Cohen did have the right intentions for the type of film he was trying to craft, but as I sat there in its first screening, I found myself laughing (along with most of the audience present) at all the wrong times.
The climax was ridiculous, the plot was mostly spelt out for the audience making you feel like an idiot, and the execution of the script was just plain...crap. How's this for an example, as Alex (the attacker) corners Liz (the victim), near the end of the film, in a security car park, Liz's friend Michelle stands outside the car park screaming to get in to help her friend - it's at this point a writer must find some way for his Michelle character to gain entry thus enabling her to save her friend - and what direction did he take? A couple making out open the carparks door for her... They don't help her plight at all, if someone was being attacked I'm sure that people wouldn't just turn a blind eye like this, and then all of a sudden the couple are gone in later minutes... What the ****?
Frankly, I want that 2 hours back. Did it really need to be 2 hours long? No. The hospital scenes were way too long and drawn out, almost physically painful to sit through, and what was with that Hannah character? You can always tell when a writer has also taken the liberty of directing because scenes are just so damn long, in the end you're sacrificing pace for details, and thats where you lose me and the rest of the audience.
Now I don't usually write reviews on IMDb, but this movie was just shite! And for a drama/thriller, I was laughing way too hard at other aspects of the film as I walked out... Is that a good thing? No. It is not.