The overuse of the strobe effect will probably cause you to have an epileptic seizure. It gave me a headache.
This could have been a good film if the director wasn't obsessed with using every trick he could think of. Not only using them but, using them excessively. Once Kevin's girl friend is killed everything is filmed with a blue filter on the lens. Another reviewer suggested this was to show Kevin's loss of soul. If so, then why was it used in every scene, even the ones Kevin is not in? No, I think it was something the director learned in film school and he overused it. This movie is gimmicked up with lots of unnecessary effects, the blue filter, the speed up & slow down effect, the tilt the camera to the side effect, the choppy fight scenes, the flashbacks and, the one I hated the most, the strobe effect. The strobe was thrown in at random and extremely annoying.
The acting wasn't the greatest but was okay. This isn't Skeet's best performance.
Had this movie been made without the unreasonable amount of special effects it could have been a 7. But, when a movie actually makes me sick, yes, I really did get a headache from all the strobes, I can only give it a 1.
This could have been a good film if the director wasn't obsessed with using every trick he could think of. Not only using them but, using them excessively. Once Kevin's girl friend is killed everything is filmed with a blue filter on the lens. Another reviewer suggested this was to show Kevin's loss of soul. If so, then why was it used in every scene, even the ones Kevin is not in? No, I think it was something the director learned in film school and he overused it. This movie is gimmicked up with lots of unnecessary effects, the blue filter, the speed up & slow down effect, the tilt the camera to the side effect, the choppy fight scenes, the flashbacks and, the one I hated the most, the strobe effect. The strobe was thrown in at random and extremely annoying.
The acting wasn't the greatest but was okay. This isn't Skeet's best performance.
Had this movie been made without the unreasonable amount of special effects it could have been a 7. But, when a movie actually makes me sick, yes, I really did get a headache from all the strobes, I can only give it a 1.