The latest from Blumhouse isn't much more than a 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' episode with a sci-fi twist
In this case, the brother’s mental illness is used as a red herring to cover up the real crime: a drug murder connected to a “mysterious” cartel lord—count the superfluous character actors—who also happens to be a corrupt cop., a 2000 flick with a similar idea, similarly devolved into simple theatrics instead of using its father-and-son-talking-through-time concept to explore obvious family dynamics.
Estes is too impatient to get to the least interesting element of his film—the murder mystery—plowing through too many plot holes without letting Jack have some breathing space to buy into his preposterous situation, stripping the character of most of his credibility as a crack homicide detective who’s supposed to question even the most probable, let alone the supernatural. Jack almost immediately believes the girl on the other end of the line to be his dead niece calling from the past.
Estes briefly showcases some artistic vision beyond the film’s otherwise paint-by-numbers crime aesthetic. It’s refreshing, too, that he opts to use unflashy transitions and editing techniques to give his film some uniform realism despite its high-concept premise. Still, it’s hard to shake alive an experience drenched in such sleep-inducing familiarity.
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