Review of Danika (2006) by Jesse O — 09 Aug 2010

I thought my 700th review on this here website would have been something a little more significant, but no, instead it's just low budget thriller flick. But to be honest, I didn't dislike this movie at all, it's ok at best.

I really wanted to hate this movie, but something about it intrigued me and I'm not sure what it was. Though, unlike The Signal which had a $50,000, this movie SCREAMS low-budget and the budget of this film was estimated to be $5,000,000 so yea.

It just looks and feels like a low-budget thriller, there's nothing fancy about the cinematography, the setting, the costume design. With that said, like I said, there's something about this movie that intrigued me and it held my attention.

It also helps that this movie is like 75 minutes long, so it's a movie that's easy to watch. Marisa Tomei has definitely improved to the point where she's actually a really good actress and she really tries her best here and it sort of raises the movie a level higher than it would have been otherwise.

But her character is unlikeable and the dialogue she's given is poor. Therefore, no matter how hard Marisa tried, this movie is still OK. But then again, that's still better than I expected. Plus it helped I watched this movie, again, free On Demand, so I wasn't offended by it because I didn't have to pay for it.

So I can't really recommend it, but there's worse ways to spend 75 minutes (IE: Watching Frankenstein 1994 version).