Blackout (IV) (2008)
Influence...
8 March 2009
Warning: Spoilers
What could I say more than the other comments? Nothing much. But I have to fill the form, if I want my comment to be accepted by IMDb.

The story is not usual. The character we see at the beginning, at the graveyard, is the bad guy, and only near the end we watch him as well. Interesting for me. The topic is really entertaining, even with the flashbacks, far from clichés and happy endings for sissies.

What I wanted to add, and the other users seem not have noticed, is the director is under influence. Brian De Palma's influence. I saw that in the last minutes of the movie. Remember, the fireworks image, in the night, around the building where the action took place; doesn't that remember you anything? I thought of BLOW OUT, of course, when John Travolta holds Nancy Allen in his arms. Great sequence.

And when the lead actress - don't know her name - is evacuated on the stretcher, the camera shot reminds me Al Pacino, in the slow motion manner, at the end of CARLITO'S WAY, another De Palma's film. A great one.

That's all I wanted to add to the comments.

An interesting one. Nothing more.
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