Review of Ellie Parker (2005) by Mike H — 14 Apr 2010
Wait wait wait, so Rogert Ebert liked this but hated Blue Velvet? Just making sure that happened.
I think Scott Coffey masturbated to the audition scene in Mulholland Drive 12 too many times AND somehow got Naomi Watts on board for his fanboy project.
This looks like a bad meta-project made by freshmen in college. Really, the photography and digital video are nasty looking, and no, that doesn't add a layer of cleverness to the meta-fiction. How they got actors of any caliber to agree to this is beyond me, but they did, and that's the only thing separating this from a trillion video tapes of which only ten copies each were made, distributed by their own creators, and long since faded from any fractional glimmer of a memory.
(And as much as I like Naomi Watts, this was kind of an auto-pilot performance, far far far far far from the tour-de-force others have hyped it up to be.).
This review of Ellie Parker (2005) was written by Mike H on 14 Apr 2010.
Ellie Parker has generally received mixed reviews.
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