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Ten Dead Men (2008)
Stop calling this a film please
I could only get about 3 minutes into this video. Most of the reason for this is because it is, in fact, a video and not a film. This is an important distinguishing feature, because the use of a video camera here has made the piece look amateurish despite some decent camera work and far above average editing. Everything is there to make this a mediocre film... except the film. A better camera and an actual professional sound crew would have made this video something worthy of the video rental vending machine I got it from. Unless you are a film student and want to view this from the point of view of a director/ editor, then I strongly recommend that you avoid spending any money on this at all.
Border Lost (2008)
Could have been better.
If someone would have spent the extra few grand on putting this movie on film instead of video, I think the impression of this movie would be better. The music tracks were not always appropriate for the scenes and both the acting and editing could have been even marginally improved for a much greater return on the movie's overall quality. I would say that it is not even remotely good as it stands, but such little things could have taken it so much closer to being acceptable. I think the fact that it has to do with Mexico just reminds me all that much more of Spanish day-time TV. Oh, and they also filmed it like a bad soap opera, most of the time without even a tripod.
Journeyman (2007)
If they can keep it up, I will keep watching.
SPOILER. The show hooked me almost instantly. I will admit that the first quarter of the pilot was slow, but it sped up fairly quickly. I hope it does not fall into a boring pattern where the viewer just asks "who are we saving this week?" I liked the twist where the main character's "true love" is also apparently jumping through time. This twist could make the show brilliant or potentially awful and ridiculous in episodes to come. I hope that there will not eventually be evil time travelers like in the later parts of Quantum Leap and what eventually became the major plot arc of Tru Calling. The special effects are decent, the acting is above average and does not leave you forcing yourself to ignore insincerities of the actors, and the writing is good enough to make me want to keep watching. I was literally looking for new episodes on the internet the second the pilot was over. There are a lot of new and interesting shows out this fall (interestingly enough almost entirely on NBC), but this is the one that I am most excited about by far.
Premonition (2007)
Well made and executed but with a mediocre plan
Many spoilers I read reviews on these types of "flashback" movies where the plot does not follow in a completely linear fashion and I am unfortunately not surprised that this plot tool is what the majority of the reviews highlight. It really was not difficult to follow, and it was written well enough that there are not really any terribly large plot holes as a result (as many people would expect). So basically, if you do not get it, just don't watch the movie, I would not want to make your sub-100IQ brain to hurt.
The acting was great, the music was good, camera work and directing was also done well. However, it seems to take the lead character entirely too long to fathom what is happening and to make a logical mapping of events (at least she does that though). To the individuals who comment that she changes things in the past to make a different future: you must have seen a different film, or you fell asleep in the first half of the movie during the painful process of the Linda character figuring out what is going on. The very point of the ending is that nothing at all has changed and that, in essence, she was the very reason for her husband's death. I also find it amusing that even though she has enough sense to track down her husband's mistress, map out the accident, and even deliberately highlight her daughter's injury on that map, she does not put that damned sticker on the door while she is in the past. If she knew that the therapist was going to be a jerk and commit her, then why on earth would she go to see him? If she was wise enough to make the calender, which illustrates that she has the ability to manipulate matter through her inverse time line, then why would she not do simple things like sabotaging her husband's car so he would not die, or at least making sure her child did not become disfigured. Sandra comes off as being too smart in this role to do all of the obviously stupid things that the character does. Also, the explanation for the time displacements is sad and irritated me throughout the movie. She should have been able to will herself to make the change at the very end of the movie to "fight for her husband" and stop the accident with one more time jump, or even been arrested for her husband's death, answering her dilemma regarding her responsibility in the matter "is that the same as killing him?"