frankyt
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Post by frankyt on Apr 28, 2020 11:07:17 GMT -5
Possessor posits that we have the technology to take possession of someone's body and this is then used nefariously to complete high profile assassinations.
The how they do it really isn't touched on which I dig, we just meet the most prolific assassin at this company who is most certainly frayed at the edges and after a successful (and extremely brutal) mission she says she wants to take some time.
Obviously she changes her mind and she has to then take another contract and this is the main plot of the film. And to get bogged down into details would ruin some of the more exciting themes in the movie.
Buncha ultra violence, weird imagery, synth sountrack with ambient noise for a classic feel. I gotta say I enjoyed the shit outta this, but not sure if I'm just enjoying it because I'm a captive audience or what. But this was a refreshing little thriller, seek it out if you can, there isn't even a trailer available at this time and hopefully it's only filled with dread and soundscapes, a classic Hollywood trailer could ruin some shit. Go in blind.
8/10
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Post by Neverending on Apr 28, 2020 11:23:28 GMT -5
As soon as this movie leaked, I knew you’d watch it.
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frankyt
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Post by frankyt on Apr 28, 2020 11:40:07 GMT -5
As soon as this movie leaked, I knew you’d watch it. Couldn't be helped. |
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Post by Deexan on May 1, 2020 13:20:45 GMT -5
FT: King O' the Leaks.
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Post by daniel on May 24, 2020 22:20:46 GMT -5
Hmmmmmmmmm... I liked the premise. It didn't strike me as much as I anticipated, but it was a good sci-fi romp with the violence and ending cranked up to "2edgy4me."
7/10.
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Post by Dracula on Jan 24, 2021 22:16:32 GMT -5
Possessor(1/17/2021)
Children following their parents into directorial careers are rare and generally serve as a point of trivia more than anything. It’s interesting that Jason Reitman is Ivan Reitman’s father but aside from the fact that they both sort of make comedies that’s not overly illuminating. Similarly I’m sure there’s someone out there trying to find deep thematic links between the movies Sofia Coppola makes and the movies her father made, but that would probably take some digging. What does not take digging is finding the link between the works of the great body horror auteur David Cronenberg and his son Brandon Cronenberg, because if his latest film Possessor is any indication Brandon is very much trying to pick up where his father left off with varying degrees of success. Like a lot of the elder Cronenberg’s films this is a movie that feels like a horror movie despite not really being one. It’s really more of a dystopian, slightly anime influenced, science fiction movie that just so happens to have moments of extreme violence that stand out quite a bit. It follows an assassin who is using some sort of future technology to literally possess other people’s bodies and use those people to kill her targets. I think that’s a cool concept for a movie and some of these kills are genuinely distressing in their over the top gore, but where the movie loses points from me is just in the base filmmaking. I found the film’s cinematography to be bad in a cheaply digital and rather televisual way. I also wasn’t too impressed with the cast and thought some moments could have been handled better. Brandon could maybe stand to take a few more notes as to how to make his movies breathe a bit more and maybe just punch up the aesthetics, but the sensibility is certainly there if you’re into that kind of thing.
*** out of Five
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