A Failed Attempt By The Director To Be Cutting-Edge

Rating: 1/10 (31 August 2012)

Once again we have a director that instead of telling a story tries to show he is avant garde with quick cuts, extreme close-ups and hand-held cameras. The movie looks like one shot by a high schooler that just got their first camera. Back in the late '60s American filmmakers began to experiment. They adopted the use of the extreme close-ups, and in attempt to show they were "fresh" some would rapidly pan the camera from actor to actor, and quickly move from full frame to headshot and back. They were trying to show they were innovative, but what it really showed is they were bad directors, and by the early '70s this experiment had mercifully died out. Unfortunately, a quarter of a century later a trio of poor filmmakers resurrected this herky-jerky camera style with the Blair Witch Project, and ever since some bad directors have been copying this failed style of 50 years ago to show they are new and original. I wanted to like this movie. I liked Jennifer Lawrence in X Men, but because of bad filmmaking I couldn't watch her.