So here’s a movie trying to piggy-back on J Law’s current success; even though it came out a couple years before The Hunger Games.
This wasn’t exactly on my “to-see” list. I just needed to watch a movie that I’d be able to stare at blankly for 1.5-2 hours. For whatever reason, I got the feeling that this movie would fit the bill. Because of the mood I was in, that’s pretty much what I got from it.
Its obviously an independent movie because it was made to look gritty, yet artsy at the same time. I think the movie tried to have a dark undertone to it, but there wasn’t a whole lot of substance to it. It was one-note; there weren’t any ups and downs. I think the director played it safe and kept the plot level which meant that nothing exciting actually happened.
I have no problems with the acting. If anything, the acting was the movies strongest suit. There were times in which I thought that the director showed up in some small town in America and started filming the people.
Some things I read on IMDB and thought I’d share:
-It was a total bore with no climax.
-The film just kind of drags on for 100 minutes and then ends. It's not a poorly made film by any means, it just begs the question why anyone would bother to create it in the first place.
Bonus review:
The Poker House : 2008 – 0.4/5
Right from the start, a serious and tense tone had been set through the narration and the musical score. And that’s pretty much where it ended. As the movie went on, the narration became a bit of a bore, and there was something about the music that I didn’t like. It was too sleazy (it sounded like something you’d hear in a porno).
The acting from the younger people was better than the older people. Thankfully, the younger actors (mainly Agnes) had more screen time. I knew Agnes’s mom looked familiar, but I would have never guessed it was Selma Blair! She did an okay job, but again, Jennifer Lawrence and Chloe Grace Moretz were the better actors in this movie.
I felt as if this movie was shorter than it should have been and it felt a bit rushed. I also think that there were a lot of parts that were irrelevant to the plot. From what I get, it was a day-in-the-life kind of movie, but the director added a bunch of characters that were unnecessary.
I knew this movie was trying to pull some sort of sad, angry, worried, sick, ect. emotion out of me, but I didn’t feel a thing; there was just something that didn’t click. It’s not a movie I’d watch again, and I don’t mean because of it’s subject matter.
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