The thing that stands out most about this film is the horrible sound quality throughout.
Most times the sound design ignores important details about what is going on during a seen, but somehow manages to focus on unimportant things and add distracting, poorly recording sound effects to draw attention to them.
In almost every scene I could point out an example, it is a persistant problem that by the end of the film goes beyond distraction and becomes extremely annoying.
One example is a scene where they are sitting next to a wooded area on a sunny day. There is no background noise, nothing to go along with what is on the screen, just silence. Could this be a thematic design choice? No not really, in the next scene near the same location during a phone call, they add sounds you might expect like birds and light wind. However, the mix is bad even on those sounds and they just seem odd.
All in all the sound imo is the worst aspect of this film, it is just always bad. In many scenes the effects they use are extremely bright and sibilant, which is always annoying when sound production teams give no attention to this all too common problem. If you use cheap, generic microphones, take time to educate yourself on production techniques you can use to alleviate that weakness.
Ok rant about horrible sound is over, how about the rest of the film? Well, visually it is ok I guess? But to be honest it just has a really boring look to it most of the time. So while I might say the cinematography is competent (especially when compared to the sound design which is abysmal and I wouldn't even say amateurish), it is in no way compelling.
If you don't like the boring look, well don't hold out hope for the story or performances. Everything about the movie's story is just boring. The presentation is done in a way that it almost feels like the filmmakers want you to be bored.
If you like boring movies, give it a try I guess. If you dislike poorly done, sibilant sounds, skip this 100%. If you can literally think of just about any other way to spend your day, do that instead. IMO watching this movie is probably about as entertaining as reading this inexplicably long review.
Most times the sound design ignores important details about what is going on during a seen, but somehow manages to focus on unimportant things and add distracting, poorly recording sound effects to draw attention to them.
In almost every scene I could point out an example, it is a persistant problem that by the end of the film goes beyond distraction and becomes extremely annoying.
One example is a scene where they are sitting next to a wooded area on a sunny day. There is no background noise, nothing to go along with what is on the screen, just silence. Could this be a thematic design choice? No not really, in the next scene near the same location during a phone call, they add sounds you might expect like birds and light wind. However, the mix is bad even on those sounds and they just seem odd.
All in all the sound imo is the worst aspect of this film, it is just always bad. In many scenes the effects they use are extremely bright and sibilant, which is always annoying when sound production teams give no attention to this all too common problem. If you use cheap, generic microphones, take time to educate yourself on production techniques you can use to alleviate that weakness.
Ok rant about horrible sound is over, how about the rest of the film? Well, visually it is ok I guess? But to be honest it just has a really boring look to it most of the time. So while I might say the cinematography is competent (especially when compared to the sound design which is abysmal and I wouldn't even say amateurish), it is in no way compelling.
If you don't like the boring look, well don't hold out hope for the story or performances. Everything about the movie's story is just boring. The presentation is done in a way that it almost feels like the filmmakers want you to be bored.
If you like boring movies, give it a try I guess. If you dislike poorly done, sibilant sounds, skip this 100%. If you can literally think of just about any other way to spend your day, do that instead. IMO watching this movie is probably about as entertaining as reading this inexplicably long review.