Review of Live! (2007) by Vins A — 04 Feb 2008

Disturbing ... Terribly disturbing ... Oh no visually there's no gore stuff or physical violence on screen, but if the director's goal was to make us think a little bit about Tv, it surely does.

When you read the plot, it is hard to believe that Russian Roulette could be in a reality show in our "real world", however it is constructed in such a way that we are not so sure of it after this.

Several times I really had the impression to be watching TV as all seems terribly true. And what can I say about the last half-hour when we see this "tv show" except that I was clearly in and that seems to be the case too for all the audience.

One thing also about Eva Mendes. I saw her recently in Ghost Rider and thought that it was just another so-called actress whose talent was just to smile and take a pose in cleavage ... Well I was wrong, and she proved with this ambiguous role that she was just a talented actress who is victim of the poor characters offered to her.

Anyway I'm not sure this movie will be interesting in a second viewing when you know all the details and particularly who will lose "the game", but it sure is something to see once for its (too) well representation of how reality-shows works.