Review of Philosophy of a Knife (2008) by Felipetroll H — 08 Aug 2009
Truly a cure for insomnia. Look, I get it. I'm "hip". It's brutal. Woohoo. A woman's teeth are being ripped out one by one, um.. what else you got for me? I'm sorry but If I sit through 4 hours of a flick I better be rewarded with AT LEAST a shot of somebody throwing a ring into a Volcano.
If you took out the meaningless 3 and a half hours of pointless exterior shots of snow falling, you're left with a 70 minute flick. Now THAT film I might like.. Now, I'll get to the gore because that is truly the reason, I'm guessing, most people are going to rent this.
Just don't. First, It IS in black-and-white. Even though it's reasoning is to blend the documentary footage and the special effects, it's still used to soften the blow of gore. The actual effects range from mediocre to annoyingly bad.
The reason I say "annoyingly" bad is this.. Andrey Iskanov clearly forgot he was directing a film and thought he was directing a Nine Inch Nails video. Look, I understand doing effects on a no-budget film is hard, but take pride in the effects you DO have, don't try to mask them by speeding up the camera and going in for a super-duper close up so we lose direction, lose interest and frankly it just looks bad.
So, in the end, Andrey Iskanov wanted to make a 4 hour film where many, many people get tortured. Well, you can add one more person to that list: me.
This review of Philosophy of a Knife (2008) was written by Felipetroll H on 08 Aug 2009.
Philosophy of a Knife has generally received mixed reviews.
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