The cinematographer an editor should immediately be hired to have awesome careers making films forever. Beautiful shot, otherwise very well put together on the surface.
The writer, maybe the director depending on what his responsibility for this mess was, should be deported to an island where there is no chance they will ever even accidentally make a film again.
This is a low-budget film, but only really shows it in the hit and miss acting. Some are really quite atrocious. And one big chunk of dialog that's sadly looped and really really obviously so. And a sixteen-year-old played by a twenty-something, but that's just movies regardless of budget.
I can't emphasize enough how good the photography is. And not just the set pieces of Landscapes, but every single bit of it.
But the story is pretty mediocre and then it stings entirely out of control into, oh I don't even know because I stopped really caring. Secret agents maybe? Certainly, they went from a low key crime slice of life small-town crime story to trying to be an action movie, then maybe a spy kind of undercover something else thriller, and aside from the needless implausibility of all this, it was just extremely poorly done the further along it got.
Oh, and inexplicably the music is sometimes this weird scary thing that makes it seem like tentacles will come out of the ground and kill everybody. So add that to the tonal shift problems.
I would literally only suggest you watch about the first half to two-thirds of it then just turn off and don't worry about the rest.
The writer, maybe the director depending on what his responsibility for this mess was, should be deported to an island where there is no chance they will ever even accidentally make a film again.
This is a low-budget film, but only really shows it in the hit and miss acting. Some are really quite atrocious. And one big chunk of dialog that's sadly looped and really really obviously so. And a sixteen-year-old played by a twenty-something, but that's just movies regardless of budget.
I can't emphasize enough how good the photography is. And not just the set pieces of Landscapes, but every single bit of it.
But the story is pretty mediocre and then it stings entirely out of control into, oh I don't even know because I stopped really caring. Secret agents maybe? Certainly, they went from a low key crime slice of life small-town crime story to trying to be an action movie, then maybe a spy kind of undercover something else thriller, and aside from the needless implausibility of all this, it was just extremely poorly done the further along it got.
Oh, and inexplicably the music is sometimes this weird scary thing that makes it seem like tentacles will come out of the ground and kill everybody. So add that to the tonal shift problems.
I would literally only suggest you watch about the first half to two-thirds of it then just turn off and don't worry about the rest.