Review of Lies & Illusions (2009) by Justin S — 05 Apr 2010

It might have had potential but it fell short. I needed to see for myself why everyone didn't like this one. I can understand why the acting was said to be horrible, because in some scenes it was. It reminded me of the bad "liar" delivery in Daredevil, Jennifer Garner's apparent best performance, or lack there of.

The dialogue was also rediculous in parts, as in who the hell would say that....ever? Not to mention Christian Slater's epic failure at understanding sarcasm, as well as his failure at understanding being sardonic (yes, difference, look it up).

There were also times where the film started to look grainy, like it was a lower quality, that or someone just forgot to run the same filters on those scenes. If you were wondering about the movie storyline itself, it might have helped if Christian Slater's character wasn't so dense, that pretty much drives the entire story actually.

And on a side note, no way someone could lose a finger in a standard office shredder, it has safty things in it that prevent that sort of thing, that scene was just dumb.