This is a movie that rides on the trend of the whole found
footage/hidden camera movie sub-genre. But is it doing anything new or
interesting enough with it? Not really.
It's of course hard to come up with something new and remaining fresh
and interesting, since most had been done with the concept already and
there is only so much you can do with it, since it's a quite
restricting concept. It's restricted with its settings and movements
and it is hard to keep things interesting for about 90 minutes, without
starting to repeat yourself. This movie however does become a bit
tiresome after a short while.
It mostly becomes a tiresome movie since it maintains its 'mystery' for
its entire running time. You don't know what is going on exactly, or
what direction the movie will be heading at. This all sounds like some
good and positive points about the movie but it's actually more sort of
annoying, since basically everything can happen at the end, when the
big 'reveal' comes. The movie doesn't drop any hints and stuff just
happens, without you feeling involved with any of it.
I kept thinking to myself; there better be a good resolution to all of
this by the end, that explains everything as well, to let all of the
events make sense. But no, in my opinion the movie takes a cheap way
out and it absolutely wasn't satisfying enough and it's the sort of
ending that leaves more questions than answers, especially when you
start thinking back about the movie.
It of course still could had been good and worked out all if the movie
was a bit more tense. For a thriller it is surely lacking some good
tension at times and doesn't ever gets you involved enough as a viewer,
though the movie still tries to achieve this through its concept.
The concept and camera-position are supposed to place you in the mind
of the stalker. It's a voyeuristic movie but again, since you don't
know any of the motivations or reasons for the events, you don't ever
feel involved with it. It just doesn't do a good enough job at making
and keeping things interesting and fresh enough to keep you interested
in the story, its mystery and to what will happen with its characters.
I did like Nick Stahl in his role, on a more positive note. He has to
carry most of the movie entirely on his own and does a pretty good job
with it. Too bad that the movie didn't really knew what to do with his
character.
It's not the worst thing you will ever see but it just isn't exactly a
good or original enough movie to recommend either.
5/10
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