Invisible

This movie is awful in a bad way. Some movies are so bad, they're funny. This movie takes everything you can do poorly in a film to the worst level possible. It seems like it was filmed with a bargain bin hand-held camera, and recorded on a tape recorder with a condenser mic. The story is even worse, given no background on any characters, except that the main couple is having marriage troubles (this is made known very early on). It would be insulting the call the acting mediocre, because that word implies something better than what I saw. Viewers will be left with absolutely no story, and without a story, no resolution to the events seen in the movie. I call these "events" because there seems to be no logic in the flow of this film.

I rated the film higher than it deserved because there's more to a film than its technical qualities. The story I found the opposite of a typical movie of romantic love. It delved in to the seedy underbelly of it all. It was about two people's tragic missteps into the demise of love. At some point though, they're confronted with two real life psychotics who, through recollection of their own perverse tragic history, and while threatening the lives of our lost couple, propel them into an odd awakening. The last moment of the film is crucial to see in the right light. In addition to its technical shortcoming, where I think the movie fails is in it's failure to get inside the main character's heads to the degree necessary to convey that their torturers are in league with their own emotional strife. Some imagery, including flashbacks, could have helped.

Starts VERY slowly, with a lot of wasted time on scenery passing a car. Virtually no background on the characters, and what little we do hear is very vague, and less than informative. The main characters do manage to portray a little emotion from time to time, but with next to nothing to support it, the effort is almost wasted. The plot, such as it is, is weak, and doesn't progress far enough, or fast enough, to hold the attention of viewers. The "action" is almost nonexistent, the possibilities for suspense wasted or ignored, and the resolution as dull as the rest of the film. Add to this at least three real goofs: at one point a crew member can be seen ducking behind the main characters. Soon after, a camera, microphone, or some piece of equipment is seen to the right. A little later, there are repeated shots with some sort of wire or cable across part of a dock, where nothing of the sort should be. I could deal with low budget, and even such goofs, if there was more meat to the story. All in all, it was like watching something put together for a school project. With a better storyline, and a little more attention to detail, the producers might come up with something worthwhile.