On the Count of Three is a dark comedy drama with a fairly engaging plot, the dynamic between characters is pretty great, directing is fine and in general it doesn't feel amateur. However it lacks strength in subtly, some acting, story and writing.
Directing is fine, though not as exciting as could be. One thing that felt the weakest was the lack of focus on the emotions of the two main characters. Like the bully scene(s). They all just need that extra push, both in performance but also framing. Pacing was oké, some imbalance.
The story is really dark. Filled with heavy themes. It does have a nice mix of comedy in between some of that, dark comedy. Though it wasn't enough to give the movie that necessary dynamic. It does bottom out sometimes during it's runtime. But the way the movie handled it's dark themes was kind of a miss for me. It felt blunt, in ways that never really meshed with the correct bluntness or anger. There needs to be the underlying hatred, the anger within. Both characters though seem to be written to be an extreme of either personality types, without the nuance to add the depth. Both of them just never felt fully realized to me. Besides that there's tons of blunt social commentary which is also used as humor, but also not, it's kind of in between, and for me never landed. Taking me out of the movie a bit. And this goes with the personality types as well being not fleshed out enough.
Thing is there was a ton of potential here. But the setups and payoffs were weak, and the in between never as convincing as it should have been. I kept waiting for ''that'' moment that made the movie whole. But it never happend.
I think acting was good, just never pushed to it's full potential. Kevin had that foundation, and Val could've really used a scene where he broke. Just needed *those* heavy emotional moments, to go along with such a dark plot.
I floats between being a comedy, a dark drama, and neither really coming to fruition.
Directing is fine, though not as exciting as could be. One thing that felt the weakest was the lack of focus on the emotions of the two main characters. Like the bully scene(s). They all just need that extra push, both in performance but also framing. Pacing was oké, some imbalance.
The story is really dark. Filled with heavy themes. It does have a nice mix of comedy in between some of that, dark comedy. Though it wasn't enough to give the movie that necessary dynamic. It does bottom out sometimes during it's runtime. But the way the movie handled it's dark themes was kind of a miss for me. It felt blunt, in ways that never really meshed with the correct bluntness or anger. There needs to be the underlying hatred, the anger within. Both characters though seem to be written to be an extreme of either personality types, without the nuance to add the depth. Both of them just never felt fully realized to me. Besides that there's tons of blunt social commentary which is also used as humor, but also not, it's kind of in between, and for me never landed. Taking me out of the movie a bit. And this goes with the personality types as well being not fleshed out enough.
Thing is there was a ton of potential here. But the setups and payoffs were weak, and the in between never as convincing as it should have been. I kept waiting for ''that'' moment that made the movie whole. But it never happend.
I think acting was good, just never pushed to it's full potential. Kevin had that foundation, and Val could've really used a scene where he broke. Just needed *those* heavy emotional moments, to go along with such a dark plot.
I floats between being a comedy, a dark drama, and neither really coming to fruition.