Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Evidence



Completely inane
After multiple bodies are found burned at an abandoned garage police sit around in a room and watch all of the victims' home movies from their cameras and phones, looking for clues. The set-up is bad to begin with--it doesn't make sense that every police officer investigating the case would be wasting their time watching home movies instead of investigating the crime. One or two cops, yes, but not a roomful of them. The set-up gives the filmmakers the opportunity to make two completely different terrible movies in one--it's a found footage thriller, where the characters talk to the camera, shriek and argue a lot and are generally so annoying that you want them to get killed already and also a thoroughly inept police procedural, where the filmmakers reveal that everything they learned about police work came from watching bad television shows. Then there's the ending--I don't doubt that the filmmakers think their twist ending was super clever but, seriously, a smart murderer isn't...

Entertaining film
Yes, the "shaky cam" is now a well-ridden genre but, still there are films like this one that try to take things in a unique direction. While character development was a bit subpar, the action was enough to keep things moving along.

Evidence was very Original
Very good! As soon as you think you've figured it out; you haven't...so many twists and turns. Definitely would recommend.

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