Review of Guy X

Guy X (2005)
4/10
weird, mysterious story on military base
7 March 2017
Warning: Spoilers
The sound quality in this thing is just TERRIBLE. did they rent the microphones from radio shack for one week for 19.95 ?? Soldier Rudy Spruance (Jason Biggs) gets dropped off at a U.S. military base on Greenland by mistake... he keeps telling everyone he's supposed to be at Hawaii, but they don't believe him. Would have made a great short film, but they take a 40 minute premise and try to turn it into a 101 minute film. Someone, somewhere, has made a huge mistake, but no-one seems to notice, and he doesn't try too hard to correct it, or maybe he's just given up. The script is a bunch of random lines, and no-one seems to connect on any level. Spruance occasionally talks with Sgt. Teal (Natascha McElhone, who looks and sounds like Jane Seymour), who seems to believe his story, but doesn't care. This probably would have made a great TV series, but doesn't really go anywhere as a film. Kind of an "X Files" kind of story. Some big mystery going on, with mysterious patients in some lab, but it's so boring that we just don't care. Yawn. The acting by Biggs is pretty good, but the story is so lame, that it just doesn't work. Directed by Saul Metzstein... looks like his specialty is directing television shows.
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