Review of Powder (2010) by Elisa L — 24 Mar 2008
Once in awhile, Hollywood manages to surprise me with an uncompromising film full of genuine emotion and enough to make you really think. Powder was completely unexpected: it's a modern fable, and at the heart of it, a rather depressing one at that. But that doesn't make it any less magical.
Sometimes a film just clicks for reasons hard to determine. POWDER should not work well as a film, but it does. It initially looks like a self-indulgent film searching for a cult following from a narrow band of sentimentalists. That may even be what it was, but it did just enough that worked for me that I fell into that narrow band. In another ten years I may look at this film and wonder what I saw in it, but for right now it had more than one scene that paid off for me. I would like to think I will always find the subplot with the deputy to be very powerful.
This probably isn't a film for the brain-dead hordes of moviegoers looking for mindless eye candy. It requires a little commitment on the viewer's part, but it's well worth it.
This review of Powder (2010) was written by Elisa L on 24 Mar 2008.
Powder has generally received positive reviews.
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