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Vendredi, août 6th, 2010 |
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Finally saw the David Twohy (”Pitch Black”) thriller Below last night and was slightly disappointed, but ONLY because my expectations were so high. I thought it was great - not as good as Pitch Black, but a different kind of movie so a comparison isn’t really fair.
At first you get the feeling that the movie can’t decide what it wants to be - war? mystery? ghost story? horror? submarine hunt? Then you realize that it WANTS to be all those in one. And it does a very good job of being ALL of them.
There are some excellent, VERY brief visuals in the movie that contribute to the sense of unease and otherworldly. It’s the best representation ever of the feeling that you can only catch a glimpse of a ghost out of the corner of your eye.
The sound design (as with just about any submarine movie) is excellent and story-critical. The acting is top-calibre from a relatively obscure cast (Bruce Greenwood, Olivia Williams, Matthew Davis, Holt McCallany, Scott Foley, Jason Flemyng, Nick Chinlund). The film is co-scripted by Darren Aronofsky (”Pi”, “Requiem for a Dream”). Director Twohy puts in a cameo appearance.
The DVD exhibits one of the cleanest, clearest pictures I’ve ever seen (in my collection of 1000 DVDs). It rivals the transfer of a more obvious reference disc like “Monsters, Inc.”. The sound, although not DTS, is terrific, and you’ll want to turn up the volume so you can hear everything from the hull noises to whispering voices. The disc is presented in anamorphic widescreen at about 1.79:1
I highly recommend it!
The year is 1943, and the U.S.S. Tiger Shark is on a covert assignment deep within enemy territory in the Atlantic Ocean, until an order takes them on a detour for a rescue mission. When they arrive at the designated coordinates, three survivors from a British medical ship are found and brought aboard, among them is a female named Claire. It turns out that a German U-boat had torpedoed and destroyed their craft two days ago, leaving them stranded in the sea. Soon after, strange things begin to happen on the submarine as Claire starts to uncover clues that eventually lead her to a dark secret among the senior crewmen. Now they must find a way to evade the enemies above, while dealing with an unknown terror in their midst at the same time.
Below came highly recommended to me, and I have to say that I was very impressed, especially with the acting. You might remember Bruce Greewood’s compelling performance as of JFK in Thirteen Days; here he plays Lt. Brice, the acting captain of the Tiger Shark. On the surface Brice is a very capable man, decisive and a great leader, but as his past begins to catch up with him, the guy slowly breaks down, and Greenwood does a good job portraying the character’s slow descent into instability. Olivia Williams and Matthew Davis are equally solid in the roles of Claire and Ensign O’Dell respectively.
Admittedly there are certain cliches one would often expect in horror movies, such as the obligatory visual tricks, the unexplained noises, and sudden crescendo in the music to insinuate the presence of the paranormal. Yet director Twohy was able to create some interesting and effective sequences, one noteworthy scene took place when Lt. Loomis noticed his image the mirror, there was an obvious lag between the movements he makes and the reflection’s response, it still gives me the creeps when I think about it. The script co-written by Aronofsky is another strong point of the movie, original and inventive, even though the film seems to flounder a bit towards the middle, as it transitions from the action-oriented WWII subplot to the more suspense filled part of the film. In the end, the plot is an engaging tale that will probably leave you wondering whether if the submarine is really cursed, or is it just a string of coincidental circumstances?
I would consider Below as one of the best movies I’ve seen all year, therefore I am somewhat perplexed in regards to Dimension Films’ poor treatment of its release. There was little to no advertisement, the trailer itself wasn’t made available until a week before the picture hit the theaters, director Twohy even had to put up a website out of his own pocket. But don’t let that stop you, despite some of the minor flaws I have mentioned previously, Below is a very well rounded film, and I believe it should cater to a wide range of moviegoers, that is if they will give it a chance which the studio never did.
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