Wednesday, December 25, 2013

THREE FILMS - THE HUMAN RACE, OPEN GRAVE, ANCHORMAN II

THE HUMAN RACE

Sort of a combination of Stephen King’s THE LONG WALK and an episode of Outer Limits with some elements of SAW.  Good characters and is suspenseful but a small budget hinders the effect of the narrative.  A bigger budget would have helped.



OPEN GRAVE

A strong opening and an intelligent handling of the momentum horror/mystery unfortunately gives way to zombie movie clichés.  Well made but it gets trapped in genre.  I did like the ending.



ANCHORMAN II

Laughed hard at the first film which is chock full of wild hilarity but this is pretty awful.  The rule of thumb here seems to be if it was funny in the first film, do it again ad nauseum x100.  By the end, I just wanted it to finish- it feels very long.  Repeating a joke doesn’t make it funnier (unless you’re Rodney Dangerfield).

      

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