I'm not ready for my closeup

Rating: 1/10 (13 July 2009)

The main flaw of the movie is the unbelievable overuse of extreme closeups. It's as if you are forced to view faces, bushes, walls, guns, horse chests (not heads, mind you)and most of the world from a vantage point of 4 inches distance. In addition, the director frequently swung the camera from point to point - like a bad home movie - inducing vertigo. The second problem is most of the characters of the supporting actors were not developed. There were people I wanted to know better but the director left them two dimensional. But the main reason for my vote of 1 is with the cast assembled and the locations used this could have been an excellent movie. Instead it looks like it was directed by a first year film student.