Three handicapped people want to perform at a rock show. They are missing a drummer though. This drummer must be handicapped too. They find one, and he's got a handicap alright: he can't drum. When the four combine and start practicing their song the relations between the players start to get stressed.
Ex Drummer starts as a pretty normal film where people get together to make music but quickly turns into a psychedelic shock fest. This could have worked out very well, but I think in this case it fails pretty hard as none of the things delivered as shockers actually work - a shock moment doesn't do its job if it is brought without a valid emotion and that is just what happens in this film: most scenes and sketches are just brought out, word for word, as if reading a newspaper.
The film isn't altogether bad though. Some bits are put together pretty nicely and give the idea the filmmaker really wanted to make a Flemish version of Trainspotting. That comparison doesn't hold though - while that film doesn't slip up every other scene, this one does pretty often.
So, all in all, nice try, no cigar.
5 out of 10 psyched out people
Ex Drummer starts as a pretty normal film where people get together to make music but quickly turns into a psychedelic shock fest. This could have worked out very well, but I think in this case it fails pretty hard as none of the things delivered as shockers actually work - a shock moment doesn't do its job if it is brought without a valid emotion and that is just what happens in this film: most scenes and sketches are just brought out, word for word, as if reading a newspaper.
The film isn't altogether bad though. Some bits are put together pretty nicely and give the idea the filmmaker really wanted to make a Flemish version of Trainspotting. That comparison doesn't hold though - while that film doesn't slip up every other scene, this one does pretty often.
So, all in all, nice try, no cigar.
5 out of 10 psyched out people