Review of Choke

Choke (2001)
3/10
Good premise and plot, extremely bad execution
18 February 2014
Choice is like your average crime TV-flick, where the storyline and acting is quite convoluted and easy-made. Dennis Hopper though is good, though struggling with a rather bad script. Especially where he talked to himself, or imagines what might happen, or where he remembers his daughter speaking. Really amateurishly made.

There's nothing wrong with the plot, but more about the way the idea is put to life. A great director would have made something out if this. Rather unlikely dialog, which reminds me of the "Murder she wrote" TV-series, which is not due to bad actors, but direction and manuscript. The man behind both is a man of obviously Swedish heritage, John Sjogren, which also is a co-producer of this. I can see his behind both better and worse productions than this.

The set is sometimes laughable, like the cantina, and the toilet, which is for both men and women. Even the police is suspicious in this movie. To bad to see great actors like Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen sinking into some deep sheiss like this.

Stay away, unless you are out for a bad flick with a couple of good laughs, without this really being a comedy even being a bad movie, it kept me interested. That's worth something.
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