The audience I saw this film was totally into the film. They laughed at the right spots, and gasped at the right times as well.
It's a very dark humor film (I was LOL in many places). True, the plot does have a "Home Along" quality to it, and the daughter does even look a little like Macauley Culkin.
It's not a great film, but fun to see high caliber actors in B-movie vehicles. They add a polish to the film that B-movie actors can't provide.
Finch's camera does go nuts in the 1st half of the film while going all over the house, up and down, all around through fancy zooms and pull backs. Some of the style got a little heavy, but still fun to watch and take in as a film-making exercise.
Some of the "when a robbery goes bad" dialog between the 3 bad guys is simply a hoot. Whatever you're thinking, the characters will wind up saying, to much guffaws and nervous laughter. What you might think of doing in the situation does get done by the characters, but some of still managed to surprise me. So the script isn't entirely silly or banal.
Jodie Foster wasn't "challenged" too much, but she did manage to provide some character changes within the framework of the film. The rest of the cast did their jobs very well. Jared Leto and his cornrows were menacing! The 3rd bad guy was pretty creepy. Forrest Whitaker did what he could with his character, though I would have like to have seen a harder edge for his character.
I give it a grade of B or 3 stars.
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It's a very dark humor film (I was LOL in many places). True, the plot does have a "Home Along" quality to it, and the daughter does even look a little like Macauley Culkin.
It's not a great film, but fun to see high caliber actors in B-movie vehicles. They add a polish to the film that B-movie actors can't provide.
Finch's camera does go nuts in the 1st half of the film while going all over the house, up and down, all around through fancy zooms and pull backs. Some of the style got a little heavy, but still fun to watch and take in as a film-making exercise.
Some of the "when a robbery goes bad" dialog between the 3 bad guys is simply a hoot. Whatever you're thinking, the characters will wind up saying, to much guffaws and nervous laughter. What you might think of doing in the situation does get done by the characters, but some of still managed to surprise me. So the script isn't entirely silly or banal.
Jodie Foster wasn't "challenged" too much, but she did manage to provide some character changes within the framework of the film. The rest of the cast did their jobs very well. Jared Leto and his cornrows were menacing! The 3rd bad guy was pretty creepy. Forrest Whitaker did what he could with his character, though I would have like to have seen a harder edge for his character.
I give it a grade of B or 3 stars.
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