Tacoma
Et incurventur ante non
- Location
- far enough away
This movie was an afterthought: I was going to rent "Extract", but I wasn't in a Jason Bateman kind of mood. So I rented this taut-looking little thriller about a Dutchman (Ryan Phillipe) who is taken hostage by Muslim operatives (Laurence Fishburne, Gina Torres, and that guy from Three Kings that tortured Marky Mark-- and yeah, I feel bad that I don't know his name). The Dutchman is in Morocco to start a food program to help the people, no doubt spurred on by conversation with his Moroccan girlfriend.
Okay, sounds like a sort of standard premise. This movie, though, takes place in basically one room, and presents us with 90min or so of questions. What do they want? Why have they taken this man hostage? What is his girlfriend's involvement?
This is the kind of movie I really like, if that's not becoming apparent-- small, character-driven movies that tell a "small" story well. None of the actors in this are master thespians, but they do a competent job. The stilted accents stop bugging you about 30min in.
I thought of this almost as a play, filmed. The reason for the film's title made me hurt a little.
I won't give anything away with any more commentary, but I really liked this movie a lot more than I expected. I thought it was a little more clever than I gave it credit for, and a good deal more thought-provoking than I suspected it would be. So I'm pretty pleased with it overall. A pretty solid effort from the cast, who number about... 7.
93 Tacoma points for an interesting, provocative little film. Two thumbs up.
Okay, sounds like a sort of standard premise. This movie, though, takes place in basically one room, and presents us with 90min or so of questions. What do they want? Why have they taken this man hostage? What is his girlfriend's involvement?
This is the kind of movie I really like, if that's not becoming apparent-- small, character-driven movies that tell a "small" story well. None of the actors in this are master thespians, but they do a competent job. The stilted accents stop bugging you about 30min in.
I thought of this almost as a play, filmed. The reason for the film's title made me hurt a little. I won't give anything away with any more commentary, but I really liked this movie a lot more than I expected. I thought it was a little more clever than I gave it credit for, and a good deal more thought-provoking than I suspected it would be. So I'm pretty pleased with it overall. A pretty solid effort from the cast, who number about... 7.
93 Tacoma points for an interesting, provocative little film. Two thumbs up.
