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Better to Fade Away Than to Burn Out
by theNESMonster (movies profile)
Dec 11, 2006
5
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6 people found this review helpful
Hard Candy lives up to its name. It's a superb movie that lasts a little too long. The acting is terrific as well as the direction. These no-name faces are sure to become rising stars after these performances. With the only really famous person behind the movie being the cinematographer who is famous for his low frame-per-second shots in 28 Days Later, everything about this movie is a new visual treat. I loved the directing, each shot so close up every angle was an uncomfortably intimate perspective of each character giving you no escape than to look at their emotions. The camera gives you just enough to get the point across which is what's called for in a suspense thriller like this one. And the acting is magnificant. Our little girl (who is going to be playing Shadowcat in the next XMen) can turn her character around completley without any seams in her performance, along with her co-star Jeff (who didn't make a great performance in Phantom of the Opera) who doesn't give a lot away about his character. But therein lies the flaw in this movie; throughout the story we're not sure who is good and who is bad, and this feeling carries out too long to root for either of the two in the story. You're not really caring about what happens to either of them because you're not sure what their motives are. Their acting keeps the story afloat for only so long before it just starts looking like a preachy movie about what this writer would love to do if he or she ever got their hands on a pedophile. Cut off about twenty minutes and you've got a great movie that everyone should see. But as is, it's a rental of a movie that burns its story out a ways after I kind of cared about what happened to our main characters, but I'd probably buy it if it were on sale. |
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