Review of In a World... (2013) by Axet — 24 Mar 2015

Unwatchable. Turned off halfway through. The subject matter, the movie trailer voice over field, would be of interest only to someone in that part of the industry and if it was a clever, funny, amusing script with good actors (like "The Holiday" had for example). This extremely weak film is not remotely that. Take the setting, that "world", which is about as mundane and uninteresting as could be imagined and done on the cheap not in the good indie way but in the you get what you paid for way, it's an incredibly boring space lacking both comedy and drama.

It's cast with non-actors not counting the few filler cameos and the lead actor who plays the father who is about as disgusting a screen non-presence as there ever was despite his touted low.

Voice (he is NOT one of the big trailer VO talents in the real business btw) and a writer-director-actress who doesn't know good comedy much less story-telling, much much less filmmaking.

The attempted comedy is the kind of sleazy, distasteful banter that's both unfunny and offensive for lack of wit.

The director is so inept as to have gone the extra-wide 2:40 aspect ratio for this basically straight to video title. All that does is diminish the effect for worthy large spectacle pictures while at the same time robbing the home video screen real estate for smaller ones. And again, it doesn't get any smaller than this! Jackass directors, producers, distributors have to stop over-using anamorphic widescreen on completely unjustified intimate junk like this! It doesn't fool anyone!

Read the positive reviews next door on this lame excuse for a movie, then if you want to waste your time watch it and then go back and note those critics' names and never listen to them again. Better yet start a petition to get them FIRED! The morons are hopelessly out of touch with the audience and biased toward anything indie that they sniff as an underdog or is a stuffy subject because of their sickening pretentiousness.