Review of Elena (2014) by Seanieblue — 31 Oct 2019

There are few movies as bad as this one. The review scores online have been swollen by friends of the production, to put it mildly, but even they cannot disguise what a turgid piece of junk this movie is.

You'll see the phrase "self-indulgent" in different reviews of this video, and that is bad enough, but from a filmmaker's perspective the worst slur you can give a movie is applicable here: incompetent.

And the director doesn't know it. This is miserably bad story-telling, with amateurish lighting and sound, and a story that barely rises to high school level. Somebody got some money and thought they'd make a movie.

Happens all the time, and the results are often sophomoric, as in this eye-poppingly bad effort. Watch this if you want to know how NOT to make cinema.