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| Genres: | CrimeThrillerDr |
| Starring: | Nels Lennarson, Kirsten Robek, Milla Jovovich, Sandrine Holt, Michael Shanks, Julian McMahon, Sebastien Roberts |
| Director(s): | Julien Magnat |
| Available Quality: | Hi Def, Hi Def |
| Country: | USA, Canada, France |
| Year: | 2011 |
| IMDB Rating: | 5.5 |
The elementary school teacher Anna Marchant lives with her boyfriend Bryce in a nice apartment and every now and then she meets her best friends Francine and Nina to drink and talk. When Anna is crossing a bridge to meet Bryce, she sees an infamous serial-killer killing a woman. Anna runs but she is attacked by the killer and she falls off the bridge and hits her head. Anna stays in coma for a week and when she awakes, she learns that she has brain damage followed by Prosopagnosia, a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while the ability to recognize other objects may be relatively intact. The police detective Sam Kerrest unsuccessfully tries to force Anna to remember the face of the serial-killer. Now the serial-killer knows that Anna has seen his face, but she is incapable of even recognizing Bryce and her close friends.
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Visitor Reviews: (20)
Tony Heck 19 May 2012
A pretty original and tense thriller that shows off more of Jovovich's improving acting. Worth watching. I say B+
"He's not stupid enough to go after the one person who can recognizehim, right?" After a night of drinking with her friends Anna(Jovovich)decides to walk home alone. While walking she sees a murdertake place and is attacked by the "Tear-Jerked Jack" serial killer.After falling off a bridge she wakes up as the lone survivor. She alsowakes up with a disease called face-blindness, a condition whichaffects you from recognizing any faces...even your own. Lately it seemslike the lower budget movies are much better then the big blockbusters.This one is no exception. While this movie started to repeat itself tothe point of being annoying it was still tense and keeps you interestedand watching through out. Jovovich is becoming a very good actress andshe continues to build upon what she did in "Stone". A pretty originalidea that if it weren't for the repetition of the problem would havebeen an excellent movie. That said even with the repeating this isstill a very good movie that is very much worth seeing. Overall, asurprisingly good and tense thriller that deserves more of an audiencethat it will get. I give it a B+.Would I watch again? - I might, just to see if I can catch the clues.
bsevingen 18 May 2012
Think about the casting while you watch
We don't get to watch many thrillers lately so I was hopeful about thismovie. It was actually satisfactory enough, the changing faces of thesupporting cast was fun and sufficient to emphasize with Milla'scharacter. If this was a bigger budget movie, it would be delightful tohave some of these faces by more recognizable character actorsdepending on the situation and her disposition towards them. As it was,the film was more like a procession of many extras (note thecollaboration of 4-5 studios). For some weird reason I expected andhoped she would at some point see Philip Seymour Hoffman as herhusband, Luiz Guzman as the cop, Eric Roberts as Lanyon, but of coursethat didn't happen :) I agree with others that the love affair lookedsuperficial and lacking chemistry, but just think (after watching thefilm) how it would be elevated by a clever and ambitious casting ofsupporting actors.On the downside, the suspense level was not really high and the filmnever came close to being chilling. It could have been a much morecaptivating thriller. Sometimes the story of the killer was almost asub-plot and it was her prognosis that was at the forefront, I guessMilla preferred it that way for having more opportunity to display herserious acting skills. My alternative would be to have more scenes withLanyon and also more innovative stalking by the Lurker. That way theaudience would engage better in making guesses about the killer'sidentity and could actually still be amazed by a clever twist at theend.Here is a diversion about the leading actor (well, the movie becamerather dull enough times to give me an opportunity to amuse myself byreflecting on her career). I think Milla is cleverly changing gear, sheis very positively stuck in my mind with the Fifth Element (that waswhen Bruce Willis was a dashing action star) and I noted her acting inthe Million Dollar Hotel as well as her portrayal of Jean Darc. Whenyou come to think of it, she has a remarkably diverse and richfilmography with leading roles in major films while she was very young.Overall however, her last ten years went largely unnoticed by peoplewho are not into resident evil, so now she has the chance to make are-entry as a fresh face who happens to have a lot of actingexperience. In the next few years she could aptly make her mark as thelead actress of noirs and thrillers (a role played by Kim Basinger andMichelle Pheiffer in the last decade).To sum up, an entertaining and somewhat original movie whichunfortunately is not intellectually challenging. Watch it, but withrealistic expectations.
dusan-22 06 May 2012
Pretty lame
I wouldn't put a comment on such mediocre movie if I didn't see somevery positive reviews so I wanted to post mine as well as it is veryopposite. First of all the movie is a thriller stereotype made inHollywood and the only thing that supposed to make it different is thatextraordinary disorder of a main character. However, it didn't helpmuch. First of all, using the camera as her point of view brings a lotof confusion to the watcher. Director probably has forgotten that movieinsight of the main character and one of the watcher are two completelydifferent things and cannot be the same. Main character in the movie isfictional and can tolerate fictional insight but we the watchers arereal and we need real insight to follow the action. On the other hand,movie has just several characters totally so it is pretty easy to guesswho the killer is or should I say you can't miss. What I also foundpretty irritating is pretty bad acting of Mila Jovovic. All in all,don't bother if you ask me.
Boloxxxi 06 May 2012
Seriously dull-ass movie.
Movie about a woman who happens on a serial killer, has a fall tryingto escape and damages her brain so that she can't hold on to the facesshe sees. The serial killer knows about her condition and is stalkingand taunting her. I'm a Milla fan, and when you're a fan of someone youhate seeing them in a dull movie. I was actually surprised that therewere people who gave this thing more than 3 stars. I mean, NOTHING MUCHHAPPENED; no suspense, no drama, no nothing. It's one of the laziest,not-a-damned-thing-happening, movie I've ever seen. If you're a Millafan like I am love doesn't have to be blind. It's quite possible tolove her and hate this sleeping pill of a movie she's in. Love,Boloxxxi.
arief_spekta 05 May 2012
Enjoyable to watch this movie!
Milla Jovovich is my favorite artist. I love it when Milla Jovovichappear in a new movie with a horror-thriller gender (although in myopinion this is not gender horror). This movie reminds me of a similarfilm that has a dementia disease. But it is rather strange, because ofblindness in the face of foreign sounding in my ears. however, thismovie still I can enjoy until the end. I feel this movie could thumbsup for Milla's acting and acting-acting any other actor.Grooves that are easily digested making me give rating 8. This moviecan bring me to feel the 'disease' is in misery. It is unfortunate,because the main killers easily guess (though this movie is not gendermystery). But again, I liked this movie.
hipcheck 04 May 2012
Nice premise, horrible execution
The opening montage is artful and interesting, and as you're watchingthe movie, you probably are interested in the premise, that life wouldbe very complicated if you couldn't recognize faces any longer. So yousit back and prepare for something that might be along the lines of"Insomnia", an thriller with a real foundation in psychologicalmanipulation, with twists and surprises to keep you guessing.And after that opening montage, it's pretty much all just clichés andtired plot devices and stale acting. We've seen the leads do muchbetter than this. The 'filler' scenes are so trite they feel like theywere written and shot in one take. And the 'action' scenes are shot ina way that does engage us at all. And as for the plot itself... have weever seen a woman fleeing a villain and trip before? Have we seen theprotagonist stuck in a situation where the hero has to rush to save herbut he can't get to her quickly? And finally, the main crux of thefilm, the face blindness, is interesting for about three minutes, andthen it gets incredibly stale, and yet we have to sit through anotherhour+ of it. Give this story to Chris Nolan and you'd have somethingfantastic - but this incarnation of it is really not worth wasting thetime on.
Bart Bart 26 April 2012
Watch it at 2Pm on a rainy Sunday
***This doesn't have spoilers just vague spoilers***where to start with this review, I knew what I was getting into whenyou start a Milla Jovovich movie, though popular (only by looks and adecent actor) she performs in terrible movies her last good ones wereprobably "Fifth element", "the messenger" and "Zoolander" other thenthat the rest of her movies are quite bad. This is another one. Its supposed to be a crime drama but honestly if you're payingattention you're going to find out who the killer is half way throughthe movie. The whole movie I'm screaming "Its that person! Its thatperson!" This movie doesn't try to be funny or comical or witty itsincredibly bland though some what dramatic at times. Milla Jovovichcharacter was a terrible love interest their was no chemistry at allbetween the two, they were together for maybe 3 days "movie time" andwere expected to care about what happens to them as a couple, its cornyhow over dramatized it is. This movie is boring, honestly I doubt ifeven me writing this review is even worth my time. I'm just trying tosave you time and say skip this one and watch it at 2pm on a rainySunday if you have nothing better to do.
Robert W. 26 April 2012
An interesting idea is completely lost in muddled confusion
The concept of this movie, the premise of 'face-blindness' is reallyinteresting. When major characters in the film suddenly change actorsbecause she can't remember what they looked like...that is a reallycool idea and premise. It is the only thing saving this dreadful messfrom being a complete zero. With this unique idea the story is lost andslapped together. The performances are uninspiring and the charactersare boring. It doesn't know whether its a mystery, a thriller, or anaction movie, or even a drama.Milla Jovovich is a Hollywood calibre star in my opinion. She is agreat actress, and has terrific chemistry...usually. In this film,which I can only imagine she did as a favour, she is a complete mess.She looks silly and acts like a B-Movie horror scream queen. Hercharacter is vapid and empty. Julian McMahon plays the tough and angrypolice detective who becomes involved with Jovovich. He has a solidcharacter and does a decent job but the story eventually bogs down hispotential and leaves his character empty. Its sort of hard to pin pointany other performances in the film because the characters change actorsso much. Her boyfriend Bryce seems to change actors a dozen times inthe film so its hard to say who played who the best. It doesn't mattermuch because the film is just so hard to follow and never finds anyspecific path.Director and writer Julien Magnat probably thinks he made some sort ofbrilliant artistic feat. In fact its a mess and I don't know how or whyit got made. It doesn't seem to suffer from being low budget and yetthe ideas in the movie get so skewed and I think the film tries to telltoo much and too many ideas all at once. I think it should have been athriller about a woman tracking a serial killer she can't identify butthat whole premise is completely lost. Skip this so called thrillerbecause its a definite miss. 5/10
BOOGIEMAN-pN 23 April 2012
Feces onto crowd
Story: After accidental encounter with serial killer, while trying torun away from him, girl (Milla Jovovich) smacks her head badly and endsup with a brain condition known as prosopagnosia = face blindness (it'sreal, google it up if you want to know more). In this movie, it ispresented like - she can distinguish human faces while they are in hersight - but when they walk away and reappear, same people lookdifferent every time. Now, to make the story interesting, killer findsout about this poor girl's brain defect, and starts harassing her.What seemed to be thrilling slasher at the beginning, somewhere at themiddle loses it's orientation and becomes just another movie you can'twait to get over with. Instead of action, you'll have to watch Millagoing to various therapists, subjects to hypnosis and other boringstuff. No scares, no suspense, no blood, no Wes Craven's Scream-likechase scenes. Pity, because I think story had a great potential. Idon't say this movie is bad as you might think from my (trying to bewitty) review title ... but, it's nothing more than an averagethriller.
cmoyton 22 April 2012
Tie Rack
And here we have a competitor against Dream House for this years worst.Some folks seem blinded in their adulation for Milla Jovovich to reallyreview this movie objectively. Here, let me help you, its a turkey witha capital T. Jovovich does actually make an effort but in this she isalone as the supporting cast are as bland as rice paper. The directormust take some responsibility as something more substantial could havebeen made from the face blindness premise but the direction ispedestrian and as a result the movie lacks any tension or excitement.As in many serial killer/detective/witness combos the witness anddetective end up in each others arms but in reference to theaforementioned "witness", Harrison Ford and Kelly Mcgillis they ain't.Special mention goes out to Julian McMahon who plays the detective inquestion as he brings balsa wood acting to a new low level. Forgetabout Body of Evidence or The Specialist as Faces in the Crowd winshands down for the unsexiest movie romance ever. There's more chemistryin a test tube. Marianne Faithful is wheeled out from cold storage inthe role of some expert on something or other to offer her (stating theobvious) pearls of wisdom to help Milla overcome her affliction.Jovovich's character also has a couple of would you ever date cougargirlfriends, one of whom gets slain by the killer(unfortunately not the"Chica" one). Thankfully we are spared the rain drenched graveyardscene with the cops standing by the trees and the killer watching inthe background. Next time out can someone please provide Milla with a pepper spray thatactually works, but at least she had a cell phone that worked underground.
j-pc-birchall 17 April 2012
Progressively Irritating...
The only thing this film has going for it is the aesthetic beauty ofits lead actress and the initial shock that the NIP/TUCK guy is nolonger as pimping as one initially thought.Progressively intolerable, irritating and violates one's common senseto a point that one wishes the DVD exploded after 30 minutes.Specifically, the director bypassed the fact that the woman actuallyhas EARS. Furthermore, she is devoid of any oxytocin molecules grantingher the ability to fall in and out of love quicker than a back streethooker.However - The continuous switching of actors to convey the progenitorscondition was interesting. It gave a sense of what it may be like tohave such a disorder. This became the bones of the film and was indeeda suitable platform for the intended story line.
Kate 17 April 2012
Interesting premise, poorly done
It was an interesting premise, losing facial recognition, and couldhave been a really good story line, but overall it was very poorlywritten and executed. Too many situations were forced, made to fit themovie rather than actually being a realistic part of the story-line.And the main characters made really poor decisions multiple timesthroughout the movie - the ones that make you think "really? comeon..." The characters that played Bryce all looked similar, so I hadtrouble telling them apart - maybe I've lost facial recognition too.Overall it was pretty hokey - a definite B-movie thriller. I wouldthough like to see a good movie with the same premise.
Murli 03 April 2012
An interesting premise sadly poorly executed
The ratio of what's right to what's wrong in this movie is somethinglike 1:5, with the only thing that the director and the script gotright was the notion of a woman losing her ability to distinguishfaces, even those near and dear to her. What went wrong is just abouteverything you can think of: acting, plot, the "shocking" identity ofthe "serial" killer...Milla Jovovich's character suffers a traumatic head injury whilsttrying to flee a particularly heinous serial killer who's terrorizingwomen. She then loses her ability to recognize faces, including thoseof her boyfriend and best friends. What's interesting is the way thefaces of these people change. What backfired is that some of thesechanges are so subtle that you don't even realize that the faces havechanged till you think about it 5 minutes later and then have to rewindthe movie to confirm. Case in point: her Latin friend Nina who managesto look the same in every scene that she's in. What's even weirder isthat somehow the face of the detective she meets remains the same, anomen that leads to a tired cliché.The acting is very sub par. Milla Jovovich hasn't convinced me thatshe's a good actress and the shining example is when she's in theneurologist's office and manages to recognize the flawed glass stone,which wasn't hard to do given that there's only one in the whole bunch.Milla's facial motions as she "recognizes" the stone are so bad Iwondered if this was her first ever movie role. Even worse is JulianMcMahon who starts of by being a complete insensitive idiot in thefirst meeting with Milla's victimized character. Normally a policedetective would employ tact and manners to make a person feel calm andrelaxed but this is the opposite...and he hasn't got any facts aboutwhat happened to Milla, which makes you wonder what sort of detectivehe is.The plot of the serial killer was just plain stupid. A guy who wants toplay games with the one person who could possibly identify him? There'sno surprise as to his identity and you can even make a simple correctguess before the half way point. You don't even have to see the movieto make the guess. Just close your eyes and let the answer come to you.All in all, not a movie to recommend. Bad acting, bad plot and just abad waste of time.
Adam Bushill 03 April 2012
kotatsu
I have labeled this review Kotatsu for a good reason, Kotatsu are thoseJapanese tables and just like them this movie is shallow and wooden. Ilove Mila's work and cannot fault her performance in this movie buteverybody else is pretty much terrible. The writing is over simplifiedand under thought out, pop psychology meets Jerry springer. Thetherapist tries to be powerful and dramatic but just comes across likea comic parody. It was really an effort to get through this movie withits awful dialog and annoying music not to mention the makeupdepartment appears to have obtained its facial hair appliances from theplug hole in a hotel shower. The movie used obvious devices to attemptto fool the audience into mistaking one of the main character was thekiller (and occasionally one of the secondary characters), sorry filmmakers, I'm not five years old, I like most of your potential audienceI have seen a great many of these films and I've seen this sleight ofhand/smoke and mirrors stuff before, many times. Not to say that I'mgreat at always spotting the bad guy, far from it, but in this film hemight as well have been wearing a hat with the word "murderer" on it.I'll leave you with one last, unaccountable observation (MILD SPOILER).I'm not geneticist but how likely is it that two people with very darkhair would have a blonde child?!
Lloyd Bayer 01 April 2012
Not quite done...
I have mixed reactions after watching this movie. In some ways, themovie has exceeded my expectations, but then lets it down again andagain.On the positive side, there hasn't been a good whodunit murder mysteryin a long time. Taking that into consideration, this movie is a welcomechange and even starts of as a good murder mystery. Another welcomechange is having Milla Jovovich in a more meaningful role as comparedto her heroic association with the "Resident Evil" franchise. As AnnaMerchant, Jovovich is a primary school teacher who witnesses a horrificmurder after a night out with her friends. Dubbed "Tearjerk Jack" forviolating women after killing them and then weeping over their lifelessbodies, the serial killer chases Anna until she falls off a bridge. Twoweeks later, Anna wakes up in a hospital with a rare condition known asProsopagnosia or Face Blindness where her ability to recognize faces isimpaired. The disorder becomes an ordeal when she can no longerrecognize her friends, the children she teaches and even people closeto her like her father. After therapy, Anna realizes that FaceBlindness is a serious disorder unless she learns to cope with it. Inthe process, she gets close to detective Kerrest (Julian McMahon) andlearns that the serial killer is still at large. Worse, the killerknows of her condition and is now closing in to finish the job. Written and directed by Julian Magnat, the concept is almost originaland suffices as a thriller. Anna's confusion is actually felt becauseMagnat uses an average of 3 to 4 actors for each character in themovie. Anna's boyfriend Bryce, played by Michael Shanks, is also playedby about 10 other actors. This premise works to some extant by placingthe audience in Anna's perspective and each time we see differentfaces. Prosopagnosia is an actual disorder and portraying it in thismovie is a definite tick mark for Magnat. Then it all goes downhill.The rest of the movie becomes so clichéd, it gets to be annoyinglypredictable. With most whodunits, the audience is always introduced tothe killer, sometimes very early in the plot, before unveiling who thekiller is. With this movie, Magnat does the same, but places the killerin easy reach of Anna. So why then should we wait till the end of themovie for the killer to strike? Obviously because the film has to bemade with a minimum runtime of 100 minutes! But it doesn't stop there.The ending has to be the mother of all clichés when Anna cannot tellthe difference between the hero and the killer because they wear thesame clothes. Another negative aspect is the unnecessary romance thrownin. In all of this mess, Anna is romantically inclined to onecharacter, who happens to have the only face she can recognize. Gofigure! For a thriller, Milla Jovovich is not bad as the lead character. No wayis she getting anywhere near an Oscar for her performance here, but herportrayal is definitely better than some of her other releases. I can'treally say much about the other actors as there are various actors thatkeep switching each time Anna encounters another character. Since thisis Magnat's second foray as director and first as screenwriter, I don'twant to be too harsh on the outcome. As a learning curve, if he hadpaid a little more attention to the plot and it's execution in thefinal act, this could have been a master thriller.Watch it if you have to, but on a lazy day. As an alternative, Irecommend 1992's "Blink", a similar concept but with a better finish,starring the lovely Madeleine Stowe.
TxMike 31 March 2012
Woman is injured and suffers from "face blindness."
Your personal rating for this movie depends a lot of why and how youwatch it. For the rather simple underlying story, about a serialkiller, it isn't that good. But for how it depicts "face blindness" andhow one might learn to overcome that handicap, it is pretty good. Ienjoyed it. Milla Jovovich is teacher Anna Marchant. As the story opens we see thatshe in fact has a very keen memory, for both names and faces. But oneevening after meeting her friend she is walking on a bridge closed formaintenance and she spots a crime in progress, the serial killer isupon his latest victim. She sees him, but trying to get away falls intothe river, hitting her head in the process. In a coma for several days,she wakes up with "face blindness", the inability to distinguishsubtelties that allow us to recognize a particular face from thethousands we have seen.Part of the ensuing movie involves police working with her to try torecall the face of the murderer, since she is the only one alive tohave ever seen him. The other part of the story is how she is able torecognize her boyfriend, Bryce, by using clues, such as how he isdressed when he leaves in the morning, what tie he has on, etc.When the scene is from the perspective of the audience, not sufferingfrom face blindness, we always see specific actors playing specificcharacters. But when the scene is through the eyes of Anna, the faceseems to change each time she sees it anew. In fact, in the credits itshowed 15 different actors playing her boyfriend, Bryce. Othercharacters are played by up to 6 or 8 different actors.So, as a crime story, I found it just "so-so", but as a novelty of howface-blindness might affect someone, I found it very interesting, andalso from the movie-making aspect.SPOILERS: Eventually with the help of hypnosis Anna was able topartially recreate a vision of the face, and it turned out to be apoliceman helping the main investigator. She also was eventually ableto return to teaching, in a small community on a nearby island wherethere were very few students.
Robert Collins 30 March 2012
Milla once again proves that she is one of the best actresses working today.
After viewing the trailer for this virtually unknown thriller I gotexcited for two reasons, firstly it stars Milla Jovovich who isexceptional in everything and also because the story looked extremelyoriginal, and after viewing, it doesn't disappoint. The story is verydifferent to the usual thriller, a serial killer is stalking women andMilla witnesses one of the murders, the murderer chases her and throwsher over a bridge where she hits her head which causes her to get faceblindness, which in turn prevents her from identifying the killer andalso puts a severe strain on her personal and work life. The subsequentman hunt for the killer is a cracking thrill ride which will keep youon your toes for the entire duration.This movie boasts a knockout performance by Milla Jovovich, she is somuch more than an action star zombie killer, she has a terrific rangeand is able to make any character believable, she is just amazing ineverything I see her in, I do hope she continues to land complex roleslike this one because she is so great and infinitely watchable.The story at times goes off track, towards the end it starts to bringin a romance element which is unnecessary but it's only a minorannoyance, the rest of the movie being great makes up for it. Thesupporting cast are also good, Australia's own Julian McMahon does thetough cop act perfectly, and Marianne Fairhfull does her cool voicething very well. The use of different actors playing the samecharacters was definitely a smart move for this movie, it adds a lot tothe whole face blindness element, the director could have been cheapand used cgi to augment people's faces but he doesn't and it's betterthat way.Face Blindness is a disease I have never heard of before, I don't knowIf it's even a real disease but my god it sounds scary, it would trulybe a life ruining debilitation. So if you love Milla Jovovich, lovethrillers or just after something highly original, check this out.Enjoy.
Matt Kracht 29 March 2012
Jennifer 8 rehash
Major spoilers for both Jennifer 8 and Faces in the Crowd.Jennifer 8 (1992): Cop on the edge falls in love with a blind girl,whose roommate was murdered by a serial killer. The killer turns out tobe a cop on the force who hates blind people, because his abusivemother was blind. In the climax, the killer is fooled by a trap, as thewidow of a slain cop gets her vengeance by shooting him, whileimpersonating the blind witness.Faces in the Crowd (2011): Cop falls in love with a girl who has faceblindness. She's the only witness to a serial killer, but she doesn'tknow what his face looks like. The killer turns out to be a cop on theforce. In the climax, the witness is fooled by a trap, as the killerimpersonates both her ex-boyfriend and her new, cop boyfriend. Her copboyfriend shoots the killer, but is mortally wounded and dies.Is it a complete match-up? No. In Faces, the cop isn't "on the edge" --just a bit overworked. In Jennifer 8, the love interest is not amaterial witness, whereas the love interest in Faces is. In Jennifer 8,the serial killer is specifically targeting blind people, while theserial killer in Faces is an opportunistic rapist/murderer. The climaxis also reversed. In Jennifer 8, it's a victim who sets a trap, not thekiller.Could this be complete coincidence? Yes, of course. Many of the tropesused in Faces are significantly older than Jennifer 8, and they couldbe easily considered to be well-established clichés in the serialkiller genre. However, it's difficult not to keep thinking to yourself,"Hey, this really reminds me a lot of Jennifer 8..." while you'rewatching Faces.In the end, I found the similarities between the two movies to be verydistracting. Even if Faces didn't remind me of Jennifer 8, I'd still bea bit harsh on the story, given how many serial killer clichés it hitson the way through the plot. Speaking of distracting, there are somereally annoying product placements, though it's nowhere near as jarringas Will Smith slobbering over a pair of sneakers in I, Robot. On theplus side, the acting and directing are both competent, though neitherreally shines. There isn't really much gore or nudity, despite thesubject matter, so if you're looking for a psychological thriller thatavoids descending into outright horror, this is a good bet. With afemale lead, a romance side-plot, and some Sex & The City-stylecarousing during the girls' night out, I'd say this is the kind ofmovie that might appeal to women, though I think these elements wereintended more to appeal to women dragged to this movie, rather than toattract a female demographic to it.
holtintl 27 March 2012
Bad Character! and Bad Examples!................
The idea of the movie is not bad but the story line is very poor. Thecharacter of Anna Marchant(Milla Jovovich) in the movie is very bad.ifshe is happy with her boyfriend then why she have to hang out with her2 friend to the club looking at other guys??,and especially when sheslept so easily with the detective Sam Kerrest(Julian McMahon) aftershe got fight with her boyfriend Bryce(it was her fault because shelied to him and by mistake she kiss another guy in thediscotheque)/cheap character and showing a bad example to the publicespecially woman. So overall the movie just want to expose AnnaMarchant's ability to see a changing faces of the crowd thats all!,It'sa wasting of time.
CliffyTX 27 March 2012
Entire Premise Is Flawed - Acting Deplorable
***MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS*** I really do try to look for the good in amovie...reasons to like it more than dislike it but this movie simplyput way more effort into trying to make the viewer "see through MillaJovovich's eyes" and not enough thought into the entire premise of themovie!Milla Gets attacked and develops, in laymen's terms, Face Blindness.Great and spooky idea for a movie, right? WRONG! She can no longerrecognize faces. Even the faces of those whom she's extremely close toand known for eons. All truly a sad condition for someone to have tolive with but the glaring flaw to me VERY early in the movie was thefact that the condition has absolutely no effect on voice recognitionyet she seemed to have a complete lack of voice recall!!! She no longercould distinguish her own boyfriend's voice from a total stranger's?Puh-LEEZ!Sure, it'd freak me out to hear a familiar voice coming out of a"stranger's" mouth, and for a long time too, but it would make me zeroIN on voices and THEN maybe clothes and mannerisms. This painfullyobvious flaw doomed this movie from the start for me, but still Iwatched.The worst-acting award would have to go to her therapist. The bestacting would have to go to Milla but, sadly, that's not saying much.Her over-stereotypically-done friend calling Milla's character "Chica"throughout the movie made me want to eat my own ears to avoid hearingit even one more time!Sadly, just overall a great idea that wasn't thought out before itscreation. If you've already watched grass grow, ice melt and paint dryand still need something to do? Watch this movie!