Vortex: 4 out of 10: If the producers of Overdrawn at the Memory Bank ever tried to remake Total Recall for German television it would look a lot like this movie.
Vortex is a short subtitled German film about an innocent man sentenced to a prison where he has to recreate his crime over and over again in the mode of Dante's Inferno. Unfortunately that short description is much more interesting then anything the film ever achieves.
The prison itself (outside of some horrible CGI spiders) is actually very well done and reminiscent of that great mutant town from the previously cited Total Recall. The film however does nothing with this interesting set up preferring to put its rather bland hero through a series of quite obvious moral dilemmas.
The film in retrospect makes little sense after the first twist ending and absolutely no sense after the second. It however does succeed in entertaining if only with a dangling anticipation that something more interesting is going to happen very soon. Sadly for the viewer it never does.
Vortex is a short subtitled German film about an innocent man sentenced to a prison where he has to recreate his crime over and over again in the mode of Dante's Inferno. Unfortunately that short description is much more interesting then anything the film ever achieves.
The prison itself (outside of some horrible CGI spiders) is actually very well done and reminiscent of that great mutant town from the previously cited Total Recall. The film however does nothing with this interesting set up preferring to put its rather bland hero through a series of quite obvious moral dilemmas.
The film in retrospect makes little sense after the first twist ending and absolutely no sense after the second. It however does succeed in entertaining if only with a dangling anticipation that something more interesting is going to happen very soon. Sadly for the viewer it never does.