Bad sound editing

Rating: 4/10 (28 February 2008)

Very interesting to read some of the comments about this flick but no one mentioned how bad the actors mumbled the dialog. I thought is was a decent enough story but the dialog was so bad you couldn't understand what the actors were saying, it took away from understanding what was going on. Someone mentioned Danny Glover's whispering his lines. I think the director did a lot of blunders by not setting up many scenes so the outcome would have made sense. There was just too much garbled dialog. Another complaint was that the film was shot too dark. It would be nice to see what's going on to at least make sense of a scene. There is a story here but just too damn hard to make out the dialog to help the viewer follow the plot. I blame bad sound editing for this fault. There were many places that just didn't make any logical sense and that was the fault of the director. It's a shame when a picture is screwed up by technicalities as this one has many. Hollywood thinks it's really "trick" to shoot a film dark. This is a lot of BS. There is a time to shoot scenes dark here and there but throughout the whole film?.....No, I'm afraid not. It's a big strain on the eyes. Sweeney Todd would be an example of this.