Review of Skew (2011) by Zed C — 07 Jun 2012
3.5/10 - I love the found footage genre. They're done right (Blair Witch Project, REC), and they're awesome. Done wrong, and they're just a lazy mess of annoying talking heads and convoluted plots (see this).
The performances were okay I guess, given the material and "improv" style of filming. My biggest gripe is with the ending... sorry, "ending". There was no ending. What's with horror flicks lately having non-ending endings? You don't have to wrap shit up in a nice bow, but, give us SOMETHING.
.. anything. I don't care if they all live happily ever after, or everyone dies, but don't give me some veiled psudo ending, to be all "hip" and "smart". The director is PM'ing people on IMDB to explain the ending, and by doing that (while cool), is just admitting he failed as a filmmaker.
If it's not on the screen, then it didn't work. I'd say avoid, unless you're really bored and wanna kill 83min.
This review of Skew (2011) was written by Zed C on 07 Jun 2012.
Skew has generally received negative reviews.
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