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DokBrowne [ 2.0 ]
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Horror Movie a Day guy has this movie pegged: http://horror-movie-a-day.blogspot.com/2010/03/box.html
Richard Kelly, much like Shyamalan nowadays, has no idea how to ground his beyond-the-stratosphere-loopy ideas with normal, relatable people or situations, and the ideas themselves are so damn murky in presentation and needlessly complicated and tangential in theory (I could boil down the movie's mystery to about 3 words yet it's nearly impossible to decipher Kelly's intentions while actually watching it; I still don't get the point of several things like the water columns, the last shot in the window, or the thematic relevance of lightning). He's hopeless. I haven't read the short story or seen the "Twilight Zone" episode but I'm certain that this idea works great in more succinct form.
Not to discourage other artists from expanding upon kernels of creativity, but this should be tagged as the epitome of bloated, gratuitous, misguided, elongated adaptations of far shorter works (officially replacing the woeful likes of Ron Howard's "Grinch", and serving as the exact opposite of fascinating expansions like Spike Jonze's "Where the Wild Things are"). Or at least used as final evidence in the case to legally forbid Richard Kelly from ever writing another screenplay. As the review up there noted, he's an interesting director with a gift for setting up eerie, portentous mysteries (hence not giving this movie a zero rating), but has no business determining the outcomes of those mysteries on his own. He's a fucking loon, and nobody wins when he's allowed to indulge himself.
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jeff_v [ 4.5 ]
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Most reviews mention a promising concept or premise that is squandered, but I think the idea is stupid right from the beginning and the over-solemn execution only makes it laughable. Also, does Richard Kelly just pull names out of a hat when it comes to casting?
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| Weighted Rating | : 6.0 |
| No. Ratings | : 4 | |
| No. Reviews | : 2 | |
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