face-819-933726 Review of The List

The List (2013)

Good idea. Well acted, but slow, and not quite committed enough.

[7/10 · 20 February 2014]

For a long time there has been Communism, and Democracy, and many other methods have been tried, so why not Listocracy? This is a well acted if scattered, and a bit to loosely scripted movie that gives you a new option for dealing with the 1%. There is easily 3 separate movies running together here, at one point I was watching a movie similar to Paycheck, then the next I could swear someone was going to say "Please Mr. Tyler Durden, everything is under control" as if there was a split running somewhere, and at any minute we were going to get hit with the real truth. It is just then that this becomes much more like one of the "Girl with the" movies, or Largo Winch, in the grand if boggy shots of the great outdoors (at least that is were those images took me, who's to say where you could end up). The acting is the only thing that keeps this movie from being a fail really. I was not surprised by the direction that each character was taken, or pushed, and the ending was really not a good enough payoff for all of the effort. The idea of the List is very topical, and fitting with today's issues, and our society's current temperature. I did Enjoy watching this movie, and was entertained most of the time, however it does feel longer than it needs to be, and drags quite a bit in the middle. I recommend this little mystery/thriller with no real mystery to people looking for movies that are trying something new; as this is fresh, otherwise pass it on by.