If you pretend this is the best student film you’ve ever seen, it’s actually not that bad. Definitely more a product of ambition than experience (as evidenced by that ‘arty’ title that has little to do with the story’s subject and even less with its tone). Long-estranged junkie friend turns up at a couple’s door insisting the cops are trying to kill him. The problem is the filming conceit: even worse than a 1st-person-shooter, this film shows the action through all the lead characters’ first-person viewpoints, often meaning you see the same scene three times in a row, a device that gets old within the first two minutes. Eventually, despite some weak acting performances, it shapes up into an ok enough neo-noir thriller that I don’t regret sitting through it, and actually eventually kind of enjoyed that amateurish “let’s make a ‘great’ movie!” energy. I wouldn’t watch it again, though.
