tedpk1985 Reviews

The Kill Team (2013)

amazing

[10/10 · 27 April 2013]

this is about as good as it gets in terms of war documentaries. Very gripping and moving film at the Tribeca Film Festival.

This film provided a good mix of first hand interviews and in combat footage/stills which really helps illustrate what the soldiers are talking about.

The film also doesn't just center on Adam Winfield but his relationship with his parents and how the damage done affect all in his life. The director really explored this well and covered all of his bases.

The film concludes stating that Adam Winfield is released from army prison in the summer of 2012. It would have been nice to see that part documented. That can really only be my complaint here, otherwise a near perfect film.

Oxyana (2013)

not that good

[1/10 · 27 April 2013]

This is a highly visceral topic that I was genuinely very excited about and it had a lot of potential but it seems to never really gotten off the ground.

The movie is interview after interview of how bad it is there and that is just beating the viewer over the head. The film doesn't really go into why the drug problem started, the actual effect the drug has on people or any other background information, it just jumps right into interviews splashed with some scenery shots of the West Virginia region.

The film just really lost my interest after about 15-20min and I was saying to myself "I hope this whole film isn't just interviews" and sure enough it was. The way I would describe the way the film moves is that it goes up introduces the topic to you and just flat lines for about the next 70 min.

Again, I really wanted to like this film as the topic is very important and it really felt like the film was shot over a couple weekends and to shoot a documentary of this breadth can't really be done over the course of a few weeks in the summer of 2012 (which the director stated it was). The film felt far from a finished product.