Post by StevePulaski on Jun 21, 2010 22:47:32 GMT -5
Mena Suvari in Stuck.
Rating: 3/4 stars.
Stuart Gordon needs more recognition. He wrote various scripts for movies like Re Animator, From Beyond, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, and the classic Kid Safe: The Video with the cast of SCTV that was made around 1988. He too did some work on Masters of Horror and did some work on the similair show Fear Itself. He is a great director and this film will go down as a fair/not horrible film.
This film is based on a true story that happened in a similair fashion to the way the film tells it. Mena Suvari returns from the American Pie films with her hair braided like she is from the African Girls Society. Her hair braiding, not to be too mean, but it's awful. It's torture to look at for eighty minutes. If she would have looked like she did in the first American Pie then eighty minutes wouldn't feel like a Lord of the Rings film in length. The performance by Stephen Rea was great in this film. Its hard to do a role when more than half the film youre wallowing in your own pain. And Rea does it with power, if that makes any sense.
Mena Suvari is a woman who is a nurse assistant determined and focussed on landing a promotion at a job that will offer more money and will equal more benefits in her life. Her promotion is in jeopardy when she hits a bum when coming back from a bar half buzzed. The bum (Stephen Rea) collides through the window and is now in a glass, bloody prison and is helpless. The woman fears that if she reveals the man in the windshield her promotion will be lost and her job will be lost. So she leaves the helpless man in the windshield and tries to go about her business in an orderly fashion.
My jaw dropped when I realized this really happened but the ending is completely different. Just wanted to state that and not give any spoilers. Its a decent movie though at some points the actors feel like they are overacting. Mena Suvari seems constantly stressed and sometimes I felt she was overacting in parts like going over the top with stuff she said. Other than that and Suvari's strange, unappealing hair the film is rather flawless and enjoyable. The trailer made the film seem like a Comedy film rather than a Horror film. The overall feel and bad use of musical numbers for the trailer gave the thing crew dont want; The wrong impression. But my impression on the film changed and I wound up enjoying this above average flick.
Starring: Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, and Russell Hornsby. Directed by: Stuart Gordon.